Gun Control & RKBA

beevul

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23. A poor argument.

Thu Jun 30, 2016, 03:24 PM

Jun 2016

And please do not tell me about "Joe the farmer who lives 300 miles from town and the police would take 6 hours to get to his house" because that type of example is statistically nearly non-existent.

A poor argument. America isn't just 1 big metro area. Many millions of people live rurally in areas that become inaccessible after an hours rain, or in rural counties with no budget for the presence of law enforcement in such quantities and in such a dispersal pattern, that the police are only 5 minutes away. I suggest You spend some time travelling and actually getting to know America before the next time you decide to talk authoritatively about it.

Mass shootings are statistically nearly non-existent, far more so than the rural living individual who may be an hour or more from law enforcement at times.

This does not seem to have been any impediment for any anti-gun posters "telling" the rest of us (who didn't do it) what for...

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