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Originally Posted by Lithium
What is up with the dog and gun comparison?
People should be allowed to own a dog and people should be allowed to own a gun.
Do some folks actually believe that if there were no guns that there would be no murders? By that premise we should remove all cars so that there are no more accidents on the roads.
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When there are fewer guns, there are fewer deaths by guns of all kinds, murders, suicides and accidents. This is borne out by every single conducted study anywhere. There is also no correlation between gun-ownership and reduced vulnerability to crime. This is likewise borne out by every single study. As guns, particularly hand-guns and "assault-type" weapons (semi-automatic, intermediate-cartridge, large-capacity magazine capable rifles), serve no purpose other than causing bodily-harm and death to humans - unlike other tools or owned items such as cars and dogs - it is demonstrably idiotic to conflate them.