Quote:If Guns prevented crimes, wouldn't America (the country with the largest concentration of guns by far) have the lowest crime rate?  That seems like common sense to me.  Ergo, guns don't prevent crimes.  


You say you're okay with 1000 criminals owning guns if it means not registering your gun.  How about 2000?  3000?  10,000?  At what point do you say "You know what, we need to stop criminals from having guns."  When gun violence actually affects you?

 

When criminals start obeying laws I'll consider passing laws about gun ownership, in the mean time you're only making it difficult for law abiding citizens to arm themselves.

 

As for guns effecting crime rates, yes the areas of America that have a high number of gun owners have a drastically lower crime rate then area's with strict gun laws. You see the high crime concentrated in the North East with draconian gun laws. You don't see mass shootings in the South, why because as the two ISIS members found out, we shoot back.

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