Ad_Captandum
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We argue against this because the facts show otherwise. Aurora, Newtown, Va Tech, Gifford, Columbine, all were gun free zones. The highest crime and murder rate areas in the US are all gun free areas.
To me, this is absurd as saying Kabul should have been safe because there was a no-gun policy, yet it was surrounded by Afghanistan. Chicago isn't really gun-free if you can drive half an hour to Wisconsin and buy an AK-47. This is flawed and absurd reasoning to suggest such.
Britain, however, truly is gun-free, by and large, because we've outlawed it everywhere and have reasonable control of our borders. If Chicago were to institute border controls in and out of the city, and all guns eradicated from it, I have no doubt gun crime in Chicago would drop precipitously.
If the United States as a whole were to have taken the same measures as Britain, perhaps the literally hundreds of thousands of your citizens killed in gun crime over the last decades would still be alive.