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Originally posted by Battuss
Land of the free, where anybody can buy a gun.
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With or without it being legal to own a gun, the guy who wanted to kill Darrel would have done it one way or another. And instead of using a legal gun, he'd probably use an illegal one (which he probably did anyhow).
I don't own a gun. I think it's dangerous. Perhaps in a moment of immense emotion I would use it unwisely. So I choose not to buy one. But there is nothing particularily wrong with having one and being able to own one IMO.
Remember that kid in Germany who shot and killed somebody about a year or two ago? Guns are illegal in Germany yet somehow he got ahold of one.
I agree that the prevalence of gun violence will likely be higher in a society which allows you to own one. I guess that the price one has to be willing to pay to live in the closest thing to a free society as there can be.