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Old 12-10-2003, 09:46 PM   #11
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The NRA has some 'splainin to do.

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
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.
From what I understand, the studies that have been done on this do not support your conclusion, although it may have been drawn rationally.
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