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Originally Posted by aowen
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I like drugs, but other people don't so I'm not allowed to do them. Why? Because they are deemed dangerous when I use them, as I might hurt myself or other people, and they are involved in nefarious activity in regards to their sale and distribution. More complex because a lot of people also mean to do good with guns, however one might add seldom do people use drugs explicitly to kill other people, but the root of the controversy is same principle essentially.
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Nah, just that most drugs are illegal causing the problems with shady dealers and distribution channels. Most drugs are not endangering to society as a whole. And those that are, are only in certain circumstances (Driving Drunk).
The same can be applied to guns to. They are perfectly fine when people are trained to operate and use them in the appropriate situations and when they are distributed equally.
Death happens. Guns don't increase your chances of dieing. Anyone can kill you with anything they want to. Taking them away doesn't make it any harder for some psycho to kill you. With their illegally obtained gun, knife, bat, brick, or with their bare hands, poison, arson, bombs, etc...
Live in fear of personal power and freedom all you want. Everyone should have a level playing field with each other and their government. Yet you cannot trust one group to hold power over another. It has bad results every single time.