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GR8dowbay
(9/20/2017)
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GLAD NOBODY CAN, GOING TO READ THIS ARTICLE...
'cause the NAME ITSELF already suggests [more endless] LIB B.S. ! |
| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(9/20/2017)
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Studies show that 500,000 to 1,000,000 citizens use firearms in self defense each year. Do these count as "stopping more crime" or are the numbers only subsumed into the general stats?
The utility of privately owned firearms is self defense.
There are many ways of stopping crimes, ways that don't even include private guns, so it becomes tedious and unnecessary to conflate the issues.
"To Keep and Bear Arms" is a Constitutionally protected right.
Numbers games are essentially irrelevant. |
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