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Originally Posted by nickerjones
Can't you say the same thing about alcohol consumption. How many people does drunk driving kill compared to guns? I don't know the answer as I am just musing out loud but I am sure its a lot.... Hell and we have liquor control. The argument could be that by having no alcohol we could save hundreds if not thousands of lives. I bet a ton of people here are drinking heroin beer at Flames games and still driving home.
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Look at how well prohibition worked in the US. Or how the war on drugs is going. You can't stop something with a huge demand that is easily manufactured and smuggled. All you do is create more criminals.
But you can see how well gun control laws work in Canada compared to the US. Guns are not easily manufactured. They are more difficult to smuggle. And a gun consumer is not an on-going repeat customer like someone who drinks alcohol will be. Or maybe there is a nut who buys a new gun every week but I suspect that they're few and far between.