Gun Control

[quote]jonzy91 wrote:

[quote]treco wrote:
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy study refuting more guns / more murders

http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf[/quote]

Interesting piece. However, a quick read through revealed several misconceptions. For instance, it mentions Denmark as a country with a high rate of gun ownership, which is quite a stretch. People simply do not own handguns in Denmark.

As a European, who grew up in a country with strict gun/knife-laws, a few questions always pop up when tragic events like this happen:

  1. Do those that argue for gun ownership ever stop and wonder whether it is the right way to go following such tragic events? Or is it gung-ho Second Amendment all the time?

  2. The argument that ‘one could as easily just strangle/beat/whatever someone as shoot someone’ is often used to ellude that people kill people and not guns. Do guns not make it incredibly easier to kill people from a mental standpoint? Simply pulling the trigger vs. physically killing someone.

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I’m sure you’ve been brainwashed as good as we have. In the event you are willing to open your mind to a different way of thinking, there are several to be found here: