Re: Gun accidents? Guns are dangrous?
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You can give me undeniable evidence that 10,000 lives per year would be saved by doing away with guns. That doesn't change the fact that I should be allowed to have one, 2nd amendment or not, because that's "freedom" as the founders supposedly intended it.
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Freedom does not mean everyone gets to do whatever they want with zero rules or regulations in place.
I suppose that speed limit laws are, in a way, taking away your freedom to drive as fast as you want. And drunk driving laws restrict your freedom to drink and drive if you want to. And a law requiring a license to practice medicine is taking away the freedom to practice any profession you choose without govt interference.
I have not heard anyone on this forum call for the abolition of guns (an unrealistic idea in a gun-crazy culture like America anyway). But there's a difference between commonsense regulations that aim to protect people, and taking away your rights as an American.
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