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Thread #110179 Message #2312628
Posted By: GUEST,Chief Chaos
10-Apr-08 - 11:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Debate: NRA good or Evil?
Subject: RE: BS: Debate: NRA good or Evil?
The office where I work lays on the far side of a very bad neighborhood in DC. You can drive to work but risk car jackings at gunpoint while driving through (and it has happened). You also risk being mugged at gun point if you park outside the office instead of at the very limited parking deck (and it has happened). You can also take the metro or commuter train and then take the van/bus from the station to the office and get shot at while going through the neighborhood (and it has happened). The one thing that you can't do is bring a gun to work (Federal law!)
What this tells me is that the ban didn't fully work to begin with but at least it wasn't as easy for these folks to get the hand guns in the first place. There are numerous "gang banger" shrines throughout the area and a notable amount of innocent bystanders have been killed. In all of these cases it was either a direct shooting or an indirect shot that killed them. It's true that a person pulls the trigger but the handgun itself is just too easy.
Again, none of these people were suffocated with a pillow, stabbed with an icicle or beaten to death!
Cars can be and are a deadly weapon in the wrong hands. The statistics of the number of deaths does cause people to pause. The saving grace is that billions of people survive the daily drive versus the relatively minor amount that don't. And there has been an outcry over the years otherwise we wouldn't have seatbelts, airbags, crumplezones, curbs, traffic lights, crossing barriers, etc.