Mummelmann said:
sc94597 said:
Mummelmann said:
While the constitution may state that everyone has the right to bear arms, it does not state that its a good idea for everyone to bear arms.
The whole logic of more guns = less shooting is also puzzling to me.
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The framers of the constitution believed that all sane, law-abiding men had the DUTY to own guns. Now of course, the framers aren't always right, but that was their mindset when they wrote the constitution. So it's understandable that the United States is the way it is today, considering the beliefs of the framers and hence the beliefs of the populous. More guns doesn't mean less shooting. More guns means less crime. Criminals are deterred from breaking into people's homes and attacking them when they know these people could have weapons.
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Or they bring bigger guns or more people with guns. If you arm the entire population, criminals aren't going to stop being criminals, they'll simply arm themselves heavier. In Brazil and Colombia when they first started battling the drug lords who owned huge plantations it was a relatively straightforward and simple corps of policmen with standard issue 9mm weapons and bullet-proof vests that made the raids.
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Why would a burglar spend money on these weapons just to rob somebody? We don't have anywhere near the amount of organized crime as Latin America, which I might note has banned weapons and it has done absolutely nothing to their crime statistics.
