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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (334057)4/19/2007 10:14:20 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1573848
 
You said it yourself, the US is more violent than most European countries. That doesn't just include more gun violence, we have more non-gun violence (and if we had a tendency to only be as violent as Europeans, then our non-gun violence would be less because gun violence can substitute for, stop, and/or deter non-gun violence)

Also it doesn't work quite as well in these other countries as you think. The amount of violence in many countries has risen. Meanwhile state that passed "shall issue" concealed carry laws saw gun crime, and violent crime in general drop.

There are tens of thousands of gun control laws in the US. Plus many other rules that aren't law, just policies. The shooter at VA tech violated quite a few of them. Would violating 10 laws instead of 7 have given him pause?

If guns were illegal in VA, he could have just gone to another state or bought an illegal gun (which he also could have done if they where illegal across the US). If handguns where illegal he could have gotten one anyway, or used a shotgun or rifle and maybe killed more people. If concealability was an issue he could have sawed off the shotgun, sure its illegal, but feat of violating the law was hardly going to stop him.
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