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Gun Control & RKBA

Logical

(22,457 posts) Fri Jan 8, 2016, 12:05 AM Jan 2016

I favor background checks but it will do very little to stop murders.

But there is no downside and it might save someone.

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50,000 handguns stolen a year, 9,000 murders a year by hand guns.... [View all] Logical Jan 2016 OP

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