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Originally Posted by Slipknot
Common sense from statistics show gun control does not stop people from killing people.
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Seat belt laws do not "stop" all vehicle deaths. But they reduce vehicle deaths.
A very, very common argument I hear from the gun crowd, goes something like this..."if you enact such-and-such a ban, people can still get guns and kill others". In other words, they seem to be saying that unless a proposed gun law guarantees that there will be zero gun deaths, that there's no sense in enacting any laws.
No law is that perfect. Not one. So should we eliminate all laws?
Some (not all) gun crimes are committed with zero planning, sometimes people just snap in the heat of the moment. Common sense tells me, that in those cases, the less firepower the person (who is no longer completely in control of himself) has at his fingertips, the fewer graves we need to dig.
Some (not all) gun crimes are carried out by the mentally disturbed. Not all of these people have the ability to circumvent gun laws and either buy things on the black market, or manufacture it themselves.
No law is ever going to be perfect. That doesn't mean laws don't add value.
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