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Gun Control & RKBA

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beardown

(363 posts)
2. Also done without banning guns too
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 10:08 AM
Apr 2016

I assume the point you were trying to make was your closing line "...nothing about an armed society being a polite society or the rate of DGUs having and effect".

While trying to make your point you stumbled onto the salient point that gun violence is falling at the same time that the number of guns and CCW is greatly increasing. It doesn't matter if more guns are NOT helping to reduce the violence as long as it's clearly observable that more guns are not preventing gun violence from being halved over the last couple of decades.

Throw in better mental health support and you'll see a drastic drop in the 2/3 of gun deaths driven by suicides.

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