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Author Topic:   Two wrongs don't make a right (the (ir)rationality of revenge) - also gun control
Minnemooseus
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Message 110 of 452 (519754)
08-16-2009 10:48 PM
Reply to: Message 109 by Hyroglyphx
08-16-2009 9:25 PM


When's the last time you heard of a drive by stabbing?
You take guns away and people will switch to knives, pipes, axes, etc, etc.
***blink***
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

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