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I find this reasoning to be extremely pessimistic - that a background check and perhaps a 3 day waiting period will kill 3 people for ever 1 life it saves?
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I just threw out a number. Truth is no one knows.
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I'm sure you will disagree with me here, but I think that any firearm sold any civilian is more likely to be used for bad than for good.
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There are 200 million firearms in the United States.
This report (pretty old; 1990's) says that there are 44 million gun owners. There are several orders of magnitude fewer crimes committed with firearms than there are firearm owners. So your opinion has no basis in fact. Standard for the anti-gun crowd.