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Gun Control & RKBA

Nuclear Unicorn

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4. A general prohibition, entire dedicated law enforcement agencies and cooperation between

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 12:03 PM

Feb 2016

local, state, federal and international police hasn't stopped drugs and, apparently, those are as deadly as the guns we're supposed to treat the same way.

However, I can't help but wonder if the gun deaths and the illegal drug trade are more tightly intertwined than the research suggests.

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