Re: Gun accidents? Guns are dangrous?
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We can't have a risk-free society, and no one's arguing for one. This little game of listing all the other ways you could possibly die serves no purpose at all.
But just like we have traffic laws to try and minimize the death and injury from driving, or smoke alarm/sprinkler laws in apartment buildings, there should be laws to minimize the possible harm from guns.
Many traffic laws are just commonsense precautions, and so are many of the proposed gun laws (closing the gun show loophole, background chhecks for ex.) Yet for some reason gun owners equate them with "taking away my right to defend myself." It's not taking away your rights any more than a driver's test is taking away your right to drive.
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The Constitution protects my right to drive?
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See the Ninth Amendment.
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