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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN the accessibility of firearms is the single greatest reason for the US' high firearms homicide rate. i dont see how you could argue otherwise.

I don't remember where I heard/read it or the statistics off the top of my head, but virtually all homocides involve weapons bought off the black market, so it has nothing to do with legitimate access to guns.

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z I don't remember where I heard/read it or the statistics off the top of my head, but virtually all homocides involve weapons bought off the black market, so it has nothing to do with legitimate access to guns.

im sorry, but thats the wrong answer!

its simple economics. if you have a lot of guns in the legal market its only so long before they appear on the black. also, almost every one of the US school shootings was carried out by children who had accessed their parents' legally owned and registered firearms.

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I didn't think the US had gun laws? They have laws that say you can shoot first and ask later (Florida) and there was a bank that was handing out a free gun of your choice with every new account (Bowling for Columbine).

I have no idea why companies like Ingram (TEC-9, MAC-10) are still allowed to be in business? These little sub-machine guns serve no other purpose than to take someone's life.