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Originally Posted by glatt
I think that criminals are generally lazy and cowardly people who are emboldened by having a gun instead of another less effective weapon like a knife.
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I'll agree with "cowardly"; I think "lazy" is less certain, given some of the ingenious criminal schemes that have existed. But by the same token that they may be emboldened by having a gun, they're inhibited by the knowlege that the law-abiding may have them too.
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Originally Posted by glatt
Since prohibition doesn't work, the conclusion is obvious.
I think that violence would still exist without guns, but there would be less of it, and where it did exist, the damage would be less.
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That's speculation, of course. Even if it were possible, there's no reason to think that depriving a violent man of weapons makes him less violent, nor that they would "do less damage"...whatever that really means.