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Atypical Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 12:57 PM Original message |
An example of why gun control doesn't work: India |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
1. As recently proven in Canada as well, if people really want something, |
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Larkspur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. So why bother having any laws at all? |
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friendly_iconoclast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 02:38 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Mexico has stricter gun laws than the US. Which country has more violent crime? |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 11:58 AM Response to Reply #8 |
23. FBI states that violent crime in US is lowest in 30 years...with all those |
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PavePusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 03:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Way to jump straight to the hyperbolic strawman. |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 07:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
19. You're failing to distinguish between "malum in se" and "malum prohibitum" |
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SteveM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-03-11 06:40 PM Response to Reply #5 |
34. Laws reflect social policy which address real societal concerns... |
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PoliticAverse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
2. The gun markets of Pakistan... |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
3. Anyone can make a zap gun. |
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Atypical Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. It's easy to manufacture ammo. |
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wikileaksfan (63 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 01:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. India has a lower murder rate than the USA |
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Atypical Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 02:21 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. The alternative. |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 03:32 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. nonsense. Use your fists to defend yourself. |
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PavePusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 03:37 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. 1. What if I am physically unable to do either? |
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Atypical Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Are you being sarcastic? |
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east texas lib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 04:48 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Use a gun to defend to defend yourself... |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 03:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. And our NON-gun murder rate is higher than Japan's total.. |
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PavePusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 03:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Do you have evidence to demonstrate... |
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PavePusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 03:34 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Due to incredibly strict laws... |
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lawodevolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 05:08 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. Yet rates of violent killings are much higher in Japan than in the USA |
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lawodevolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 04:59 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. "6. India has a lower murder rate than the USA" |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 09:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
20. Japan has plenty of murder; it just doesn't get counted as such |
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Katya Mullethov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 11:09 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. But they sure do like to kill themselves |
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Straw Man (986 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 01:03 AM Response to Reply #6 |
22. Emulating Japan |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 07:28 PM Response to Reply #22 |
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timo (890 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 03:10 PM Response to Reply #6 |
24. mexico has stricter gun law |
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wikileaksfan (63 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 07:18 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Mexico, Columbia and nations worse than USA coming out of civil war, |
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friendly_iconoclast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 04:58 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I think many of the anti gun people secretly long for a rise in the murder rate. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 06:40 PM Response to Reply #29 |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-03-11 07:34 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Curiously, you might be onto something, sorta kinda |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-03-11 02:09 AM Response to Reply #27 |
32. How about the Baltic republics? |
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SteveM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-03-11 06:53 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. "...many of the pro gun people secretly long for civil war..." Culture war... |
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DissedByBush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
25. Sten Gun |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 07:07 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. During WWII, the Danish, Norwegian and Polish resistance made their own |
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Katya Mullethov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-02-11 06:14 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. The Ayalon Institute was making 40,000 rounds of 9mm a day to feed them |
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SteveM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-03-11 06:57 PM Response to Reply #26 |
36. "Iver Johnson Gun & Cycle Works." nt |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-05-11 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
37. Guns are only deadly if used for their intended purpose... |
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