On 20 December 2014 at 16:15, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The criminals may or may not be armed. But the flaw in your reasoning is > that the laws would serve only to disarm the law abiding good people, not > the criminals for which possession is already out later. >
Reducing the number of guns in society reduces the chances of anyone having weapons. > > > The total number of gun related injuries and deaths in the US is massively > greater per person than anywhere else in the first world. > > > That's largely a factor of gang on gang crime, which is a result of our > drug laws, not gun laws. If you factor those out we have a remarkably low > murder rate. > You jest. > > A recent Harvard study found no correlation between number of guns in a > country and gun murders: > > > http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf > > Unlike all the other studies which do? You can find similar studies for climate change too if you look hard enough. Here's a summary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate > > You ought to be more afraid of the concentration of guns in the hands of > the few, governments killed 100 million of their own people in the past > century, far more than victims of gun crimes or accidents combined. > Something the decentralization of arms might have limited. > Yeah I'm scared of that too, but two wrongs don't make a right. > > Ending the world can hardly be argued defense, though the threat of ending > the world arguably can be. That said, they're defensive for nations not > individuals. > Yes that's right it was the threat that was the defence. And the last time I looked, nations are made of individuals. > > > Sadly, however, this isn't the case with guns, where there is an idea > that having more lethal weapons around makes you safer. > > Like it or not, your life is protected daily by people with guns. When > someone breaks into your house, will you not call on men with guns? > > No. I would call the police, not the army. (And the chances are fairly good that whoever broke in wouldn't have a gun either.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
