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Originally Posted by TarJak
Speech rarely kills anyone.
Given that you have accepted that there are and should be limits, then why not limit access further than it is so that rapid fire assault weapons are not readily available? Why not limit to bb guns for that matter.
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Well heck by that reasoning why not ban the posession of knives and clubs as well? No firearm in this country is readily available unless you buy it from the black market.
Perhaps speech will rarely kill anyone but the same could be said for so called "assault weapons". The last figure i heard on their use in crimes was less than one 10th of one percent. In contrast bin Ladens speeches inspired his followers to kill 3000 innocent people in one single day. Hitlers speeches killed millions more than that. The power of the spoken word isn't as harmless as you make it out to be.
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In Australia you can legally own guns limited by rate of fire and calibre. I still don't see why this is such a threat to your "freedoms":hmm:
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Thats because you are not an American. There are things Australia does that I don't understand either but i'm not about to try to argue against your right to do those things.