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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
With regard to guns, I think anyone's gut instinct (myself included), would be that people carrying concealed weapons is dangerous and that this would lead to more people getting killed. That seems like a reasonable hypothesis.
However, the evidence doesn't support that hypothesis. Quite to the contrary, all the evidence I have seen shows that there is less violent crime in states after they pass laws allowing people to start carrying concealed weapons. There will obviously be some unfortunate incidents such as this case. You can't make a decision based on one incident. You have to view the overall results of what happens when a state allows people to carry concealed weapons. I think the evidence shows that the overall results are positive (there are less deaths and less violent crimes).
If you have any evidence that shows the opposite, feel free to present it.
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criminals become emboldened when there is a populace unable to defend itself. one only need look at cities with strict gun laws to know that. law-abiding citizens are just that. gun laws don't make a criminal suddenly concern himself with following the laws of the land, but he knows those of us who have no desire to ever go to jail will follow them. and all that does is give him ready victims, who have only 911 as a recourse.
you can pass a million laws or more; that won't solve the problem of the occasional dumbass like zimmerman.