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No. 41554
>It's like trying to stop drunk driving by banning cars.
This is a very bad analogy for two reasons.
1. If you banned cars, you would indeed stop most cases of drunk driving.
2. Cars have uses besides violence. While long guns can be used to hunt food, pistols are really just for shooting people. Or target shooting, but target-shooting pistols are rarely used in violent crimes even in countries with strong gun-control.
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Yeah, I agree with you. Also, I'd argue that the UK is an excellent example of the success of gun-control for the reasons that you stated, and also an example of how attempting to regulate far more mundane, multi-purpose, and ubiquitous potential weapons like knives is qutie difficult to do.
This is the same reason why I'm against wasting money on registering and regulating long guns in Canada.
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