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If it was illegal to own guns there would have to be severe penalties for the normal person to comply. These penalties would have to be in effect even if you used the gun in self defense. It's still possession right? Well as a criminal I now know the only deterrent during the commission of a crime is the actual presence of an armed police officer.
The murder rate includes crime victims not just targets of rage. Targets of rage may go down but victims of crimes will soar.
I grew up in a household with guns. I would no more have taken and used one of my fathers guns than I would have taken his car keys and used his car.
Accidental shootings are tragic in that the parents didn't show good judgement. Rage shootings by troubled kids are also tragic but are not a good enough reason to prevent me from being able to legally protecting myself.
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