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Gun Control & RKBA

discntnt_irny_srcsm

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3. On the contrary, a BGC gives those of us who...

Reply to gejohnston (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:12 PM

Jan 2019

...want to make sure we don't transfer a gun to a criminal, the ability to be rather sure that we aren't. Of course, that probably doesn't have any real affect on limiting crime.

We're saying the same thing in that someone who has decided on a path of crime and picked a gun as a weapon to use, probably won't be doing his gun shopping at a retail store.

I don't see most BGS as being evil but they aren't the answer to lowering crime and cutting the murder rate.

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