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Originally Posted by Peaches
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Statistics don't matter to anti-gun zealots. Your post will be ignored.
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Originally Posted by Gunni
I come from Iceland, a country where most men over say 25 own guns and I'm pretty sure Iceland is safer than Holland, with less gun crimes per capita  |
Your post will be ignored by anti-gun folks. Iceland must be brimming with religious low IQ Americans since so many guns exist there.
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Originally Posted by CheeseFrog
Right. And just as in the 1st Amendment doesn't guarantee you the right to yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater, the 2nd wouldn't reasonably allow you to own a nuclear weapon.
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Correct. Applying the Constitution requires discretion.
Guns are not "the answer" to any particular problem. Owning a gun does not gaurantee safety against criminals, it can - but doesn't have to - increase homicide rates (many American communities and countries with large quantities of legal guns like Iceland are more safe than those without), owning guns does not gaurantee that a government cannot tyrannize its citizens. Owning guns is simply a right. In America you have the right to do anything (within reason) so long as it's lawful and you do not infringe on the freedoms of others. If somebody wants to own a gun to go to the shooting range for fun, to hunt, because he/she
believes (wrongly or rightly) that they're more safe with one and they practise proper safety procedures, what's the problem?