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Originally Posted by MattyC
Not to mention those that are accidental deaths by guns.
I doubt there has ever been a toddler who has accidentally killed someone with a knife, and if there has, I'd be willing to bet I can count them on one hand.
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Indeed. I was ignoring the increased lethality for the most part as that should be understood without any sort of argument. Which, as covered, isn't a shock given that one item is designed exclusively to kill. Alas, we continue to see things like knives and cars can kill too!
There should be zero reason to ever object to magazine restrictions, restrictions on types of guns etc. These are not things important to hunting and indeed are not things important to defense of property and self. I'm not even against handguns because in this area if you are hunting you may want that handgun to take out the copperhead or cottonmouth that is about to tag you.
As I mentioned earlier the thing preventing it is whenever something is to be changed the US always goes down the slippery slope route. No we can't allow two guys to marry because then they'll want to marry another 10 guys at once! Or a dog! All hell will break loose! They are tied to the idea a constitution can't change which is complete crap and somehow they all forget about ammendments etc. A constitution is a living document. As a democracy, if it isn't...well you're doing it wrong.