Shooting at Batman Premiere - 12 dead / Your opinions on gun laws

[Mr Khan]

Player1x3 said:

I'd like to see somoeone trying to argue with this

Easy. Point 1 is dismantled by the fact that DC is effectively a city-state, and so is going to have higher crime per capita because they are more urban as a whole.

Point 2 is reducto ad absurdum, a pure logical fallacy not worth addressing

For point 3, read crissindahouse's response

Point 4 is a bit more complex, part of the overarching argument across this entire thread that a nationwide anti-gun environment would make it more difficult for regular criminals to acquire such weapons and thus reduce the need for citizens to have them, aside from the fact that a massacre is going to be a massacre whether someone with a concealed carry weapon is present or not (a la gabrielle Giffords)

Point 5: Is another example of skewing the statistics. 9.9 guns for 10 people outlays the fact that those guns are concentrated in a comparatively small portion of the population, and that ownership of these guns should be registered with some sort of authority. The processes for gun acquisition would be relatively simple in proposals i outlined earlier in the thread.