>>>>>>Of the seven times I was shot at while being the "police" I was never shot at by the gun, there was always someone holding it!
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>>>>>Then we should prevent people holding the gun :)
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>>>>You omitted the word "bad" between the words prevent and people.
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>>>Please define bad...
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>>In this discussion, someone on the wrong side of the law.
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>OK, how do gun-accidents, suicides and people who were law abiding citizens before they shot someone fit in this picture?
>The boy in germany who shot a dozen or so, was a law abiding citizen as well, and I'm sure you are aware of those incidents are very frequent, esspecially in the US.
You need to think about the frequency of these events vs. for example, dying by drowning in a bath tub or driving a car. Mass shootings in the US are extremely rare when compared to the size of the population, the number of guns in circulation and the many other ways in which people die everyday. You need to put these events in some perspective and not just regurgitate the latest CNN headline and disaster story.
>The problem is that it is hardly possible to prevent 'bad' people to hold a gun, because if they want to get their hands on a gun, they will find a way. However in the cases described above, the more difficult you make it for them to get at a gun, the better.
You are are correct. Please explain how preventing a "good" person from having a gun makes it harder for a criminal to get one?
>Honestly, I can't believe people not recognizing this.
Honestly, I can't believe you think this is a clever way to end your post.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.