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Originally Posted by Anthony
Who are you talking about? What people?
How much do you want to bet?
Right now, to be allowed to carry a firearm in the State of Florida, a backround check is made, as well as attending firearm safety course.
So your answer is the State.
I agree with you. That's why a criminal backround check is made. The chances someone abusing the ownership of a gun rises significantly with a criminal backround. In fact, the illegal use of a firearm in florida by a Concealed Permit Holder is almost negliable.
But the argument is being made by those who don't live in this country, and think that their enviroment is the same. Which I find amusing.
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Anthony, I think you need to read the quote that I was responding to to understand the context of what I was saying.
Obviously most people who intend on using a gun for the puropses of crime is not going to use a registered gun. The fact that hand guns are legal and therefore manufacturered means that they will exist on the blackmarket. If handguns were illegal, there would be no more made, and therefore less available on the blackmarket (in theory).
However, this is not my argument. I was responding to the people who think that more guns equals a safer society.
I don't think that I need to live in the US to have an opinion about guns, we have gun violence here (not as much obviously) and I don't think the answer here is to increase the number of guns. Making it harder to get a gun on the blackmarket is what will slow down deaths by guns.