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PP9
(11/16/2022)
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Psst... lemme tell you a secret. It's not the guns, it's the criminals.
You can get all the broken relics you want off the street and it won't do a thing to reduce crime. Criminals are not going to turn theirs in, and any ideas of reducing the supply are laughable. If they ever succeeded (which would require limitless funds and paying more and more for them), the street price of working guns would rise higher than whatever they offer. Anytime demand outstrips supply, the price rises, and people will act to take advantage by selling more. You cannot get rid of guns by buying them up. |
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Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
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