>>>Too many people are dying because it's easy to get guns.
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>>People are being killed because the killers can get guns? If the guns were not around wouldn't the killers use something else?
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>Not necessarily. I've been hearing lately that there's some pretty strong evidence that a lot of the casual murders these days occur because someone happens to have a gun with them when they get peeved. Leave the gun at home and the same incident might (or might not) lead to a beating, but quite likely not to murder.
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>The problem is that it's a heckuva lot easier to kill someone with a gun than with pretty much any other weapon.
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>Tamar

Fair point.