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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho
When it comes to why gun crime happens, there are many contributing factors.
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Let's change that to gun deaths as that's what we've been talking about. Yes, I agree.
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When it comes to the frequency of gun crime, there are other contributing factors, but availability of guns is the primary factor. The word "gun" is in the phrase "gun crime", after all.
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Yes, I agree
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When it comes to the potency of gun crime (i.e. casualties), guns are the problem.
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Yes, I agree
I'll add ...
When it comes to who is doing the pulling of the trigger, it is primarily criminals and mentally unstable. So why start with law abiding, not mentally unstable citizens first?
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The statistics around successful self-defense with a gun are so low as to be immaterial to the debate (see page 12).
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So .9% is not relevant to debate? I actually think it is. So < 1% of abortions take place after 24st week. No need to talk about that?