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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Yep - i see you don't understand. If you read above, we should save an estimated 30 to 50 people a year from accidental shootings. If that is going to be used as an argument, then cars is a 'MUCH' bigger target. You live in Europe, so to me in the US, a gun is a tool - just like a car. It can be used for everything from hunting to defense. So to me - they are along the same exact lines and analogous in the lines that were drawn.
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Actually, it works out to around 700, off the top of my head. 2.5 x 365 != 30.
If accidental deaths were the only basis for gun control, you'd be correct.
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For America to remain strong, we must continue to follow past traditions. Maybe that doesn't bode well for Europe, since it is a dying section of the world with a negative birth rate (a direct indicator of how your population thinks of its future), but I would like to keep my country strong. This is just one more that people are trying to errode away.
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Traditions come and go. Slavery/Puritanism/Habeas Corpus etc.
As regards birth rate, I think 6 billion is enough at the moment, and with open borders and free transfer of people, Europe's insularity is what's dying.
SUBMAN, would you be in favour of Prohibition?