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>>Look, seriously, if getting rid of guns meant trading thousands of killings with guns for a couple dozen with knives per year, I'd be more than satisfied.
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>>Maybe you ought to look up the statistics on murders. There are more than 'dozens' happening.
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>>Guns arn't killing people - people are.
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>>Ok, then are you seriously telling me that the stats will show me that gun killings are less, or at least not more, prevalent than knife killings? Sure people are killing people. But why make their jobs easier by providing them with better tools?
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>>1. The point is that if you take away guns, knifings will become more dominate. The criminals won't stop killing people - they'll just find different ways of doing it.
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>>why make their jobs easier by providing them with better tools?
>>2. why make their jobs easier by taking away my ability to defend myself?
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>Ah, but the government (specifically the people advocating taking away your right of self defense) is going to guarantee that you will not ever have to defend yourself. You will live in a utopian paradise where all is joyous and free.

Ya, and I bet they have a bridge to sell me too.