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In reply to the discussion: You Want to Eliminate Gun Crime? [View all]The Doctor.
(17,266 posts)7. Really?
Because:
"Banning abortion would mean fewer being performed. It would prevent a hell of a lot of people being prevented from having one. Everyone? Of course not. But a lot."
We're not the UK. They have more social security and better education than we do. It is naïve to think that by duplicating another nation's laws, we will achieve the same result. One must consider how they arrived at the point where their laws were implemented and what the state of affairs and the economy was. We have a very different culture here.
If you can't acknowledge that, then you aren't living in reality.
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The talk of banning means I should start buying now, and stocking up on ammunition.
GarroHorus
Jul 2012
#13
If you really think there will be gun bans in the next year or so, you're a gift to the NRA.
EOTE
Jul 2012
#47
You stop it. Just stop it right now. Reasoned and logical responses are not appreciated here.
cleanhippie
Jul 2012
#20