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Listen, they are certainly exceptions but both scientifically and rationally speaking, more guns = more gun deaths. Crime in general in the US has been on a downward trend over the past 30 years and that's a good thing. It's easy to conflate that downward trend with any cause you want to insert. It's just as legitimate to claim it's directly correlated with the consumption of chocolate cupcakes. Similarly, the more guns = more crime deaths fact should not be used as a game-stopper either -- it's like saying there are less deadly car crashes in regions where there are no cars. Um, yeah, duh.
You shouldn't make the assumption either that I am some sort of anti-gun nut. I am an avid, lifelong collector and own nearly 100 hand/long guns, including "AR's." I have more training and have fired more rounds that 99.5 percent of the US population, so that likely includes you. But like I said before, it is a non-debatable fact that more guns = more gun deaths -- and there I stand.
As for a solution to the troubling rate of gun violence we experience in America, I have NO solution and whole-heatedly disagree with most of the legislation that has been passed in an attempt to quell that number. But I'm open to new ideas and ardently refuse to participate in the loopy talking points issued by the NRA and other moonbat "pro-2A" people."
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"scientifically and rationally speaking, more guns = more gun deaths" That's not science, that's opinion. Another view might be that the quantity of guns isn't as important as what type of people own guns. You own over 100 guns, TD probably owns over 100 guns, and I own over 100 guns. Yet there is no evidence that the three of us owning so many guns is any threat to society. So maybe our focus shouldn't be on getting rid of any guns, but how do we keep them out of the bad guys hands?