as to the point that crime itself will occur with our without a gun, I recall that we had a long discussion in the past regarding the upward surge of knife related crime in Great Britain. The government there seized and destroyed the weapons of its citizenry. So, now they use knifes to commit crime there. just like in the middle ages. Is that advancement or enlightenment?
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -Thomas Jefferson
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