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Mr Khan said:

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SamuelRSmith said:

Yeah, people can still have guns... but it's not treated like a right

Nor should it be in my view.

The average human being is too stupid and irresponsible to be trusted with something so dangerous.

And yet, the cities that have restricted gun ownership, and/or states always have the higher crime in the US..

Is that a symptom of the ban or a reason behind the gun ban attempts?

Honestly i'd rather have it so that an 11-year-old can't just pick up a shotgun lying around the house to murder his pregnant stepmother, as was the case in my hometown a few years back (the trial for which was only finally resolved), and half the reason that local or state gun bans don't work is that the criminals who need them just go out of town/out of state. If they had to leave the country, now, that would be something.

Symptom of the ban, most likely. In most of the cities, the bans were enacted decades ago.

Comparatively, if you look at states that have eased laws, crime has gone down. Florida is a good example of it. They were the first state to legalize CCW, and their crime rate has dropped faster than the national average. There has never been a case to where you can directly correlate handgun restrictions and a decrease in crime. Its always been the inverse if anything.