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Yeah, in the end people don't want their toys taken away. This is true not only in guns, but in video games, drugs, internet, porn, etc. Whether there was a great ironclad reason to regulate any of these things, whether it would make the world safer or better, the people who like these things are going to resist. They may come up with good reasons for it, but the real reason is we all like our toys, and human beings are just not generally inclined to go without something they like for anybody else's benefit. This is not to say that it would necessarily help to limit guns, or violent video games, or alcohol, or pornography. It's just to say that no matter if we solved those debates or not, no one really likes to inconvenience themselves for some abstract concept. We all want individually to be able to do whatever we want, while other people probably need to be regulated.
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