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Originally Posted by Knalus
Ok, lets take this idea to the other side. Would making murder, rape, and assault no longer illegal increase their occurrence? I'm guessing the ban on those crimes, while not removing them entirely, did reduce the frequency that they occur.
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It's an admittedly poor argument and one I shouldn't have made.
A better way of putting it is that putting a law in place that "bans" a method one might use to commit a crime isn't going to do a lot to keep that crime from occurring. You're dealing with someone who has already made the decision to take someone's life or commit a serious assault, telling them that they are breaking a law prohibiting guns isn't going to deter them.