Nonsense
Burglars don't seem to be particularly worried about being shot now. They're burglars, remember.
People are not (generally) worried about being shot by a burglar, they're worried about odd bloke at the end of the street who has a funny turn and shoots schoolchildren. Or the student who gets his dad's legally-held gun and takes it into university. Reducing the number of guns will reduce the number of these events.
Sure, the criminals are going to keep their guns but gang crime, for example, is largely perpetrated within similar social groupings (cf. London). Once you make the gun-holding illegal then you can slowly erode the gun-holding within those criminal groups (cf. London).
Everyone's a winner!
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Ghoti Fingers, Tue 16 Dec 2014, 20:51,
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Except the innocent lives that are killed within those social groups.
And as long as weapons are being manufactured in places like China and Russia, criminal elements will continue to obtain them.
Of course, there were no killings before firearms.
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gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Tue 16 Dec 2014, 20:54,
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_disasters_by_death_toll
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gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Tue 16 Dec 2014, 21:32,
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So roughly the same number of deaths from war in all the time before 1800 as since?
Do you have similar figures for non-war-related murders?
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Ghoti Fingers, Tue 16 Dec 2014, 21:56,
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so
What you're saying is that is doesn't matter if criminals kill each other and nobody ever gets caught in the crossfire and if a cop gets shot by a criminal it doesn't matter. As for the idea that people are not concerned by armed burglars, that might be true of gun owners, and the idea of a general paranoia over lone gun nuts is your own invention.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 16 Dec 2014, 21:11,
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