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In reply to the discussion: I'm okay with violent felons owning guns after they serve their sentence... [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)43. community policing isn't riding around in cars,
it is more foot patrol, bicycle, and horseback. Out of the countries where cops don't carry guns, UK is the only one that doesn't have a medium to high gun ownership rate.
The preponderance of guns in America kills way more people than gun free zones. Saying that, it's just another tiny bit of meaningless gun control... nothing short of a complete ban will save a meaningful number of Americans lives
there is zero empirical evidence to support your claim. Ideology and dogma have no place in public policy any more than religion does. Edit history
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I'm okay with violent felons owning guns after they serve their sentence... [View all]
discntnt_irny_srcsm
May 2016
OP
"...we don't have the resources to lock up every murder and rapist and violent criminal forever."
discntnt_irny_srcsm
May 2016
#15
I do not consider robust support of the Second right-wing. Nor did JFK, an NRA member.
Eleanors38
May 2016
#36