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Do Gun Control Laws Control Guns?

m90 Wrote: Jan 22, 2013 7:59 AM

The Gabby Giffords shooting wasn't at a gun free zone. A man with a CCW drew dowbn on the wrong person. He made the right split decision and didn't fire. Giffords and her husband have joined the chorus of ignorant people who vilified him for making the right decision.

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Earl29 Wrote: Jan 22, 2013 8:02 AM

Is Mark Kelly really glad that he wasn't there with a gun?

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Do Gun Control Laws Control Guns?

The gun control controversy is only the latest of many issues to be debated almost solely in terms of fixed preconceptions, with little or no examination of hard facts.

Media discussions of gun control are dominated by two factors: the National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment. But the over-riding factual question is whether gun control laws actually reduce gun crimes in general or murder rates in particular.

If, as gun control advocates claim, gun control laws really do control guns and save lives, there is nothing to prevent repealing the Second Amendment, any more than there was anything to prevent repealing the...

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