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Originally Posted by Dion
How do you get criminals to register ther guns?
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You don't. But if there are fewer guns available, if guns are properly stored and registered, a lot fewer guns are going to end up stolen/on the black market. Fewer guns=fewer criminals having guns.
People still drive drunk, but does that mean we should do away with DUI laws? You'll never stop ALL of the gun crime, but if you can save a few thousand lives a year, isn't that worth it?
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Originally Posted by driveway
Or conversely he was a psychopathic monster who developed a convenient narrative for himself to explain his desire to murder.
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This is what gets to me about these mass shootings. When the Boston Marathon bombings happened--all of a sudden anyone with brown skin who was in any crowd shots was assumed to be a terrorist. There was no "poor guy was probably mentally ill and no one paid attention." It was terrorism, period.
If a black man is involved in a driveby shooting, no one cares about his mental health. He's a drug addict/dealer and a thug and gets what he has coming to him.
But a wealthy white kid from the suburbs shoots up a school/movie theater/whatever, no no, he was disturbed, he had mental illness, this poor lonely kid.
He was an evil, spoiled brat who murdered people in cold blood and his actions were every bit as terroristic as the Boston bombings.
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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
There is a flip side to the coin.
If the US banned guns they would be giving up, they would be giving up an enshrined right that has been upheld since 1791.
Imagine if the Canadian government took away out right to improper search and seizure, using the argument that innocent people have nothing to hide so only the guilty will suffer.
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Is improper search/seizure the cause of more than 10K deaths on an annual basis in Canada?
If not, then it's not a valid comparison.