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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
5.) Most gun crimes are committed by inner city gangs and drug dealers. These relatively small and geographically restricted groups consistently commit the majority of gun crimes, which usually peak as turf wars erupt over Drug War changes. The best way to prevent this is by denying guns to all law abiding people everywhere.
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I was watching a program on the BBC a while back and they stated that most GSDs in the USA were a cause of domestic violence. This brings up the point that although the intention of allowing non-criminal civilians to be armed is to give the civilians a means to protect themselves, it in fact leads to more harm amoung them. People will not always use what they are given for its intended purpose. A husband and wife can engage in a bitter fight and in the heat of the moment one of them might see the gun and end up busting a few caps. To you and me this may not seem logical as we know the potential danger of using a gun, but that's not the case in the States. Being around guns for extended periods of time, or growing up in a house that has them will lead to an increased comfort level. Take the example of the family in KC, although the wife who is from Canada might never think to use the gun in a domestic dispute the two American males, one who is comfortable enough to have multiple firearms in his house and the other who will have grown up with the acceptance of having firearms in his house, might, in a fit of rage, end up firing one of the firearms.
I wouldn't carry a concealed gun if I was allowed to.