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Originally Posted by Buddahaid
Why stop with guns? There are no practical reason to own fast cars, or fast bikes, or booze, etc. all of which get people killed. Sure silly argument but I don't think most people want practical need to dictate what they choose to enjoy doing.
EDIT: And you likely get a skewed view from the news as if everybody here in the USA is dodging bullets regularly. I've never seen a criminal shooting, or even heard one to my knowledge in 57 years.
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Think that just depends on where you live.
A couple new years ago, what started as a burglary into a weed house turned into a car chase involving an AK-47. The car that was being chased(the people who had tried to rob the weed house) ended up crashing their car into a stop sign down the street from my house. The people in the car got out and fled on foot, and one of them decided to come in through our back door(the two state trooper cars out front probably had something to do with it). Unfortunately at that time, we didn't have our fence in the backyard yet, and we hadn't locked the back door for the night. Luckily the pursuers either A. Didn't want to attack police officers or B. realize that they one of them had gone into our house. My parents sat the guy in our living room, and watched over him with their service pistols until Metro arrived and took him away.
The people who he was trying to rob apparently knew who he was, and preceded to do a drive-by on his house. Twice. The first time no one was home. The second time his family was out front, and several of his family members were killed.
Fast forward to last year/this year, and there have been several criminal shootings in a nearby neighborhood. Mind you, my neighborhood is fairly safe, but low income African American neighborhoods are 10 minutes away.