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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the uninitiated, no gun can fire itself.  Somebody must buy it.  Learn how to use it.  Buy ammunition.  Load the ammunition.  Decided to carry it.  Decide to point it. Decide to fire it.  Lots of steps in between.   
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Actually, guns [i]cause[/i] people to shoot others.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sound-science-sound-policy/201511/the-trigger-pulls-the-finger

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That certainly is interesting research, and I do believe that guns and other types of weapons can elicit automatic aggression (the effect in the real world is probably rather small, though). However, less than 1 in 10 crimes committed with a gun is with a gun that was legally purchased: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/suficspi16.pdf. This suggests that, in the vast majority of cases, people who intend to commit crimes procure guns through illegal methods rather than vice versa[/quote]

No one cares whether the gun was purchased illegally or legally? The fact that it exists at all is the issue at hand here. [/quote]

Do you live your entire life according to the emotionalist delusion that you can just wish away “evil” inanimate objects?  Hysterical confabulations don’t solve crime problems (or any other problems). Lock up criminals. It ended the crack wars. It will end the gang wars on the street now too. Federal and local prosecution for violent and firearm related crimes, with consecutive sentencing. But there’s no stomach for that. [/quote]

Fine. I’ll concede that guns aren’t the problem  *IF* you’ll admit that you simply want every Black male in the country put in prison.

Deal? [/quote]

Why would a black male get put in prison simply because guns exist? He would only get put in prison if he used the gun in a crime. Your statement makes no sense.[/quote]

Because gun nutters are the most racist people on the planet. That’s why. [/quote]

You do realize that many black people lawfully own firearms?[/quote]

Not just black people. I remember running plenty of 4473's where the race chosen was not White.[/quote]

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