Paulie
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Point being, you don't need an assault weapon to stop an intruder in your home. Anti gun control is the point of this thread and many others, no?
The assault weapons ban is something I'd support. Many other rational beings do as well, even Repubs.
And when the intruder still has an assault weapon and you're out-armed because he didn't follow that law?
But if we ban these weapons, criminals won't be able to get them. Works in Mexico. Okay not Mexico, but it worked in Norway, right? Okay, not Norway either. Well, it certainly worked when banned them in America for 10 years, didn't it? Criminals didn't have them in the US between '94 and '04 and there were no mass killings. Oh wait, that's not the case either. Hmm. Well, certainly if we took all the guns, that would work. After all, the virtual ban on civilian firearm ownership meant less violent crime in the UK, right? Not the case either eh? Well, what about Australia? What happened to violent crime rates after their ban? It went up? Oh shit...this is hard.
Okay, I got it. What if we force everyone to hold hands and sing Kumbaya? That'll do the trick!
When we banned alcohol, that worked. Wait...
When we banned drugs, that worked. Wait...
When we banned prostitution, that worked. Wait...
There's gotta be SOMETHING we've banned that stayed scarce..