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by frankie_the_yankee
Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:51 am
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: Anti-Gun question...
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nitrogen wrote: Imagine, for a moment. You've never held a gun. You've never seen a gun in real life. You then read quotes like this:
The Brady Campaign's Greatest hits wrote: * The Brady Law, however, does not apply to the sale of firearms by non-licensees. Every year, there are thousands of gun sales without background checks by vendors claiming not to need a federal license because they are merely selling from their "personal collection" of guns.[2] Many of these sales take place at gun shows and the problem has become known as the "gun show loophole."

* Do You Feel Safer Sitting Next to Someone Carrying a Gun?

* Many people say no to that question, and for good reason. Most people who have permits to carry concealed weapons - people who are not law enforcement officers - have limited training and undergo less testing than even a novice police recruit. Yet they are led to believe that, given a dangerous situation, they will use deadly force with the same care and consideration that police officers will. Once a bullet leaves a gun, who is to say that it will stop only a criminal?

* Does a Gun in the Home Make You Safer?

No. Despite claims by the National Rifle Association (NRA) that you need a gun in your home to protect yourself and your family, public health research demonstrates that the person most likely to shoot you or a family member with a gun already has the keys to your house. Simply put: guns kept in the home for self-protection are more often used to kill somebody you know than to kill in self-defense

Wow, that's scary! If I've never had any experience with guns, reading this would put me off my feed! (In fact, it DID when I was younger.)
It's a purely emotional argument, meant to affect people with no experiences to the contrary.
Well done.

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