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In reply to the discussion: What does this portend for future discussions of gun registries? [View all]Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)21. Violence is perpetrated by people with violent intent. Guns are merely a sub-set.
Your motive is to protect gun ownership mine is to reduce gun violence.
I seek to decrease illegitimate uses of violence. Yes, you want to reduce gun violence but that is not the same as reducing violence overall. You have become fixated on guns.
I seek to allow people to defend themselves by the most effect means possible from illegitimate violence. For example, less than 5% of sexual assaults are perpetrated by an attacker with a gun. That means a person exercising their right to self-defense has a ~4% chance of being equally armed as their attacker but a better than 90% chance of being in a superior position.
Yes, I seek to defend -- and even promote -- that equation. Why anyone risk tipping the balance of power back to the rapists is beyond logic.
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What does this portend for future discussions of gun registries? [View all]
Nuclear Unicorn
Nov 2014
OP
Specious. The argument link is nonsense. Sudafed is a consumable, while guns are not
on point
Nov 2014
#2
Go Back and re-read. Sudafed is a consumable. Guns are not. Comparison is specious.
on point
Nov 2014
#5
"I have a .22 pistol. When I bought it it was registered to me." Question for you
oneshooter
Nov 2014
#38
Wait. People with criminal intent circumvent laws? Shut the front door! nt
Nuclear Unicorn
Nov 2014
#33
microstamping would work until a criminal found a file and 3 minutes of spare time.
Travis_0004
Nov 2014
#8
It's not an issue of data volume. It's the fact career criminals have this habit of
Nuclear Unicorn
Nov 2014
#13
Violence is perpetrated by people with violent intent. Guns are merely a sub-set.
Nuclear Unicorn
Nov 2014
#21
Except Washington DC and Chicago had to be dragged kicking and screaming
Nuclear Unicorn
Nov 2014
#30