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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
At the risk of making a Ignoble Trifecta (baiting trolls on guns, abortion, and race),
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don't forget marrying outside your race...grand slam and shit
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I was thinking yesterday about the sheer rediculousness of the proponents of concealed-carry laws. The argument (as I understand it) is that random street crime will be deterred if a substantial portion of the population is exercising its R2KBA freedoms, and if the criminals don't know exactly which ones are armed. Under this theory, Snake won't hold up the Kwik-E-Mart because he's behind a Rawlsian veil of ignorance over whether Apu is carrying a piece.
Query: Isn't the far more likely scenario that, in a world where 10% of the populace might or might not be carrying a gun with them while on errands, and convenience store clerks have a 95% likelihood, Snake simply shoots Apu, Moleman, and Shary Bobbins before cleaning out the cash register? Every friggin' time? Won't all street crime simply be reduced to the armed equivalent of cold-cocking the victim and all bystanders? Even if there are a lot of guns out there, crack money doesn't grow on trees, you know.
Mostly I'm just posting this because it will be refreshing for Bilmore and I to agree on something. And both know that we agree, that is.
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if there was very strict hand gun control bank robbers would still have guns, sure. but the punk 16 year old you happen to walk by in the parking lot late at night who seems strung out? he wouldn't have a pistol.
