Are you really trying to pretend that only 50 years of history counts?
I can do this all day, hotshot.
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I can do this all day, hotshot.
I'll focus on this for a moment, because it gets brought up a lot. (Usually in the form of the hackneyed "if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" bumper sticker)
Every single "illegally purchased" weapon was produced to meet legal demand, and was purchased legally at least once.
Reducing demand would reduce production and thus reduce availability of both legal and illegal weapons.
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If gun lethality has increased in 50 years, shouldn't have the fatalities too?
After all, you want to ban guns because they are "too lethal"
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Banning a product does not reduce demand.
See; basic economics, drug war, prohibition, etc.
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Laments a binary world, only has 1 binary solution to the problem. Oh, irony.
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Did you ever say eliminate? Nope. What are you even ranting about at this point?
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Except, you really do only have one "solution".
Look at you unable to even consider anything past restrictions.Duppin_sl said:
God, you can't even go two pages without directly contradicting yourself.
If your contention is that the drug war and prohibition had no effect on demand, you're powerful stupid.
Might I ask what your position is? Magizine limitations to 10 rounds? You've shit on all of us for being close minded. Open our eyes.
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Except, you know, that's not true. The part that you don't like, though, is that I think restrictions on guns, ammo, and magazines could be PART of the solution. You refuse to even consider that.
I think a magazine size restriction would be a damn good place to start. It's not a perfect solution, but every time you force someone who's under stress to have to fiddle with their weapon in order to keep killing, that's an opportunity for the situation to end somehow.
And yes, this would necessitate some method of taking existing high-capacity magazines out of circulation, as best you can. Sorry, them's the breaks.
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Yeah they increased the demand. Congrats, the gun bans you want will only continue to increase gun sales.