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Gun Control & RKBA

hack89

(39,180 posts) Mon Jul 25, 2016, 11:18 AM Jul 2016

Xpost: The One Question I Want All Gun Nuts to Answer [View all]

Last edited Mon Jul 25, 2016, 12:05 PM - Edit history (2)

Copied from the other forum because I can't post there:

"So, my question to gun nuts is simple, “How many guns is enough to keep us safe?”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/126211167

My answer: I don't own guns for self defense or to make me safer. I own guns for recreation. I think many gun owners feel the same way I do - the vast majority of us live in safe areas where gun violence is rare.

If more guns = more gun violence, why has our murder and manslaughter rates been cut in half over the past 20 years? Does that mean that gun ownership has actually been declining? So confused.

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Xpost: The One Question I Want All Gun Nuts to Answer [View all] hack89 Jul 2016 OP

As many as it takes Press Virginia Jul 2016 #1

Xpost thread: jonno99 Jul 2016 #2

But don't worry. JonathanRackham Jul 2016 #4

Lol Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #7

They know Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #5

Apparently I was seen as "baiting" - by asking a question: jonno99 Jul 2016 #9

You can't ask or answer questions in that group Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #12

Ha! I got that beat. I was bounced when I asked if the Brady Center would Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #20

Yep, that host is crowing about your block now in a new post to that group. Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #15

Hmmm... and neither of my questions matched the criteria for "bannable" posts: jonno99 Jul 2016 #16

Best one is a block for a self deleted post Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #18

What's funny is I keep a hammer and baseball bat by my bed. JonathanRackham Jul 2016 #3

You lost me when you started your question with an insult. NaturalHigh Jul 2016 #6

That is not my question. I lifted it from an OP in Bansalot. hack89 Jul 2016 #10

Oh, got it. NaturalHigh Jul 2016 #11

From guess who Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #13

Let me guess who asked? Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #8

Better question - how do you answer a question that is based on a false jmg257 Jul 2016 #14

Apparently they'll just change the argument - now its NOT the number of guns jmg257 Jul 2016 #17

I'm going to, for the sake of argument, go with the pro-control premise... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2016 #19