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Originally Posted by AcGold
1. Logically an assault rifle costs thousands of dollars. A pressure cooker or box cutters are exponentially cheaper so no I do not think gum restrictions will make it efficaciously more difficult to perform acts of violence.
2. I'm not arguing. I see a radically complex problem that requires extremely high level of analysis. With the way things are unfolding with ISIS, Islam and the entire shifting geopolitical landscape I see multiple potential aggravating factors none of which are guns. Restrict guns, go nuts. I don't care.
I'm not arguing against that. If the purpose of the discussion is to understand the source of terrorism and the ways in which it can be reduced isolating guns as the root source of causation identifies less than 10% of the variables in my estimate.
Gun restrictions seem reactionary where we really need a more pragmatic objective viewpoint.
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Do you not understand that an assault rifle can kill way more lives way faster than a pair of box cutters.
I don't know if you are being contrary for the sake of it, or what, but it is this desire to continue to analyze and discuss, and not be reactionary, that prevents steps being made that are perfectly sensible ways to at least mitigate some of the lives being lost.