Ray From Cleveland
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Bumper sticker slogans? How about comparisons?
Recreational narcotics have been illegal my entire life. Yet today, we have record amounts of OD deaths in the US. Even more that have been saved with new drugs such as Narcan[emoji768].
The reason we got rid of alcohol prohibition is that it didn't work and ended up killing more people from manufactured alcohol by amateurs.
The bottom line is that no matter what you make illegal, if it's a desired product, the bad people will always get them. It only stops good people from getting them.
Why make anything illegal then? Why have any laws at all if "bad people" will always find a way to break those laws anyway?
Laws restrict and control most from committing crime, however those laws have no negative affect on law abiding citizens. Making laws against guns do. A rapist will always rape and a thief will always steal. Laws penalize those people when they commit such crimes without penalizing the average citizen at the same time.
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You're doing a whole lot of tap-dancing here. Let's simplify this.
If a rapist is going to rape regardless of what the law says, then why do we have laws against rape?
the law is a deterrent.
Ding ,ding, ding!!! We have a winner!!! Laws regarding guns act as deterrents just like laws regarding rape. Get it now?
Regarding making guns illegal, I never proposed that and I honestly don't know how that even came up. You went into bumper sticker slogan auto-pilot arguing against something that nobody is proposing.
Very well.......then just what are you proposing?