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Who killed Mr. Boddy in the study and with what?: the great debate topic™®
Xalos:
Making guns illegal won't magically cause guns to disappear. It would simply make guns inaccessible to law-abiding citizens, meaning that only the army, police, or criminals could get guns. Then, the criminal knows they're the only one in the area who's going to have a gun, so they have no reason not to steal from whomsoever they please.
Furthermore, the right to bear arms isn't some bizarro cultural artifact from the past - it's one of the checks against the government turning against its citizens. Making guns illegal won't actually make tearing down corrupt governments impossible, but it'll definitely make the body count much higher.
IkeTheGeneric:
--- Quote from: Foxscotch on April 15, 2015, 08:29:34 PM ---I do, and I think they should be illegal
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hey, currency inflation is deadlier on a wider scale than legal firearms
comr4de:
--- Quote from: General on April 15, 2015, 02:42:19 PM --->> nuke threat
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God this is literally the stupidest loving argument I hear all the time?
"Daugh da gubmint has tanks an drons an nukes we can't beat them!"
Yes, because in the event of an insurgency the government is just going to carpet bomb/nuke/roll tanks through cities and alienate swathes of american suburbia to kill some rednecks, because that won't alienate the population and ultimately work against them! It's not like they've already learned this lesson from the wars in bumforgetistan!
General:
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>> nuke threat
In all seriousness though, government has much more powerful weapons than just guns nowadays to make the population conform IF theoretically they were to go against the demographic.
·::Kishgal::·:
--- Quote from: General on April 16, 2015, 07:14:35 AM ---...
>> nuke threat
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I'd like to imagine that he didn't clear the quote, that he actually saw nothing in Comrade's post. It's far preferable to the more likely "idiot" explanation.