In God We Trust
NES Member
Here's the ultimate response: I don't care. It doesn't matter. Suicide sucks, crime sucks. If you told me that NOT A SINGLE PERSON WOULD DIE if we confiscated all the guns, I still would argue that the Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms is more important than managing society to keep people from harming each other.
Freedom is messy. Freedom is risky. Freedom is crazy. But Freedom is more important than any "public good" argument that can be made. Without Freedom, the inevitable end is Holocaust, and isn't that worse than all the suicides and all the murders a Free Society endures?
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I tell them that that I know many of communities in America that have never had ANY "gun crime". Never one single gun murder. It's true! Must be the safest place in the world to live, right?
Pelican bay, Rikers island, Chino, etc. move right in and be safe!