"Actually, guns do kill people": Right-to-carry laws increase the rate of violent crime.

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15. Banning assault weapons is a good start, though obviously not an end in itself.

Unlike assault weapons, knives, hammers and other guns can't kill a whole mass of people quickly. I'll also add, yagotme, that, like many, if not most NRA members, you're spouting off non-sequiturs that are totally off the subject, and have nothing to do with what's being discussed here. I stand by my word that the 2nd Amendment is outdated, and of no use. Plenty of slaves rebelled by fleeing. Many were caught, dragged back to slavery and branded as Runaways, true, but then many slaves also managed to make the travel north to freedom without being caught, although they certainly had to be careful.

It's also not true that the slaves in the Southern States did not rebel after they were caught and re-instated into slavery. On the contrary, there were a great many uprisings, and, many slaves also found ways of resisting their white owners by satirizing them, as well.