You take guns away and people will switch to knives, pipes, axes, etc, etc.
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You are equating the potential destruction power of firearms with that of knives etc.? It certainly is a lot easier to run from a pipe, rather than a hail of bullets.
Look, I'm not gung-ho anti-gun, but some limits are needed. Flood the environment with weapons of war certainly helps war to happen.
Moose
Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U
Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment.
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