Gun accidents? Guns are dangrous?

[Brainwalter]

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The argument actually being advanced is that gun laws are obeyed at a higher frequency by the law-abiding, and therefore they prevent more defensive uses than offensive ones

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This argument assumes that gun laws somehow prohibit law-abiding citizens from buying a gun, which to my knowledge they don't. A regulation such as a background check will not prohibit a lawful citizen from buying a gun (although it might be a minor inconvenience). Yet these are the type of regulations the NRA and the gun lobby gets all worked up over and fights to defeat.

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We already have background checks, and that's not all people in this thread are advocating.