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Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Rio 2016: top American Olympic shooter Kim Rhode attacks gun control laws [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)14. Brazil's gun laws are stricter than the UK's or Australia's
it doesn't seem to help their murder rate at all.
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Rio 2016: top American Olympic shooter Kim Rhode attacks gun control laws [View all]
appal_jack
Aug 2016
OP
The gun-control extremists wreck any opportunity at reasonable measures like UBCs...
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#26
If you read about the history of gun-control, the extremist controllers set the tone...
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#30
It's the extreme restricions that make RKBA advocates so distrustful of gun control.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2016
#40
Or consider Mexico, only 1 gun store in the whole country, total gun control very safe there
DonP
Aug 2016
#18
But Brazil isn't industrialized enough to have them counted as having a higher...
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Aug 2016
#19
Reuters is virulently anti-gun. THAT'S the reason she expected "gun control" to be more important
Eleanors38
Aug 2016
#24
No, but gratuitous mention of dead children is. It's known as 'appealing to emotion' or Lovejoying:
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2016
#39
You 'rested your case' by using logical fallacies? Shades of 'Hitchen's razor':
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2016
#46
"I'm not interested in debating this crap with you any further..........."
pablo_marmol
Aug 2016
#54
"(T)he NRA pays better." They do? And how did you come to know this?
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2016
#38
So, no evidence. Did you perchance attend the College of It Stands to Reason?:
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2016
#44