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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Won’t matter what data is produced, nti-gun stance will always be that guns are bad.  Its why the administration wanted to not fund shooting or archery programs in schools.

If people take the time to learn about guns, and recognize that modern weapons can be safely handled, they don’t go boom on their own, then the emotional fear drains away.

That’s the power of education.  [/quote]

Guns are "bad" here in the US because they aren't well controlled. We have too many people getting guns who shouldn't have guns.

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The problem is, every time people come up with schemes to “control” guns, it’s always about taking guns away from the people who aren’t criminals to begin with. It’s NEVER about removing guns from the people who are using them in crimes.

So to your point - the “solutions” that are always trotted out never address “controlling” the guns possessed by those people who shouldn’t have them. The answer is always taking guns away from the people who DO own them responsibly. Because THOSE people will comply with the law (up to a point….) and therefore the gun control law can be hailed as a success because the people who follow laws, followed the law. Well, duh….  But the criminals go on, undeterred by any law.

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Lies. Common sense gun control doesn’t “take away guns” from anyone who shouldn’t have them. 
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Expanded mandatory universal background checks which includes any documented history of mental illness, domestic violence, anger management issues
A persistent database tracking every gun transaction
Stop sale of military-patterned weapons like [b]AR-15s
Stop sale of extended capacity magazines[/b]
Red flag laws
And there are many many more very reasonable and common-sense gun control proposals

None of those infringe on 2A or propose "taking away all guns from responsible gun owners"[/quote]

The AR15-type rifle (and similar/copies of it) accounts for 80% of all rifles in the US. There are more AR15-type rifles in US than there are SUV’s - of ALL makes, that are on the road. There is roughly 1 AR15-type rifle for every 6.2 people in the US. The AR15-type rifle is likely of the 100 most common objects that has ever been manufactured. That’s how many AR15’s there are.

When your “common sense” gun laws ban the most ubiquitous gun in the history of the country, there’s absolutely nothing common sense about them. [/quote]

Are you okay with banning some types of guns, though?[/quote]

Behind all the “assault weapon” lists is an unreasoning fear of inanimate objects, particularly firearms that operate the same way as others but look “more scarier.”  The AR15 is the primary example. Nothing about its mechanical design distinguishes it from other rifles with similar operation. It is not an “assault rifle” and is not used by any military. It has no fully automatic capacity, which is a fundamental military rifle requirement. It is not a “weapon of war.”

Trying to prevent crime by picking subjectively scary looking guns out of a catalogue is preposterous.  The way to fight crime is to enforce the enormous number of existing laws and lock up the people who violate them. Anything else is magical thinking and “wishcraft.”[/quote]

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