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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Day after day, a friend of mine keeps posting (in another forum) instances of "good guys" stopping "bad guys" from committing mass shootings and other crimes, mostly committed with.......guns. This is his evidence that more guns IS the answer. What he fails to see is that the vast majority of gun related violence wouldn't have taken place AT ALL, if not for the way we interpret the 2nd Amendment. Forget the "good guy with a gun stops bad guy with a gun" meme. Every firearm, every single one of them, started at a legal source and somehow all too many of them end up in the hands of criminals and lunatics. More guns within such a gun permissive society truly does = more guns in the hands of bad guys.
Our horrific gun related violence stats are testament to that fact.
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I haven't researched this in a while, and I'm tired of researching it every time this stupid fucking argument rears it's ugly, zit-covered head...so I'm referring to data that may be 3 or 4 years old.
For every successful defense of person utilizing a handgun, there are 43 wrongful handgun deaths in this country.
The argument is utter anecdotal bullshit. These people oughta be held to an answer as to whether the 43 innocent victims matter to them or not. It's a simple yes/no question, with a simple yes/no answer.