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Bayview

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I think there’s a few conflated topics. BUT. I’ll wait. My morning or afternoon poop is coming. pst instead of est.
 

kidfury

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Indeed, although the NRA and others argue that “good guys with guns” save lives, these kinds of incidents are the exception rather than the rule. This misperception stems largely from a study published in 1995 by criminologists Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, who asked 5,000 Americans if they, or other household members, had ever used their guns in the past year for self-defense. Based on the responses they received, the criminologists estimated that guns are used for self defense in the United States more than 2.5 million times a year. But other researchers argue that the survey was ambiguous and likely over-estimated defensive gun use; more recent studies have found that guns are only rarely used for self-defense. In 2015, David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and Sara Solnick, an economist at the University of Vermont, analyzed national government surveys involving more than 14,000 people and reported that guns are used for self-protection in less than 1 percent of all crimes that take place in the presence of a victim. They also found that people were more likely to be injured after threatening attackers with guns than they were if they had called the police or run away.
 

kidfury

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that man is at relatively high risk for suicide, made higher by immediate access to a firearm
 

Mike_Jones

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The Constitution mandates firearm law and abortion law in totally different ways. Abortion law is passed to states via the 10th Amendment. The Constitution doesn't deal with power over abortion, so it passes to the states.

Gun law isn't just a little different. It's a LOT different. The Constitution says "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", meaning that no level of government anywhere has authority to even chip away at the fringes of gun rights.

It's not like you don't understand it. It's that you don't like it.

Tough sh!t.
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austard

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ballistic goggles and ballistic helmets are also *baned, maybe as an added deterent.

as such people wishing to have protection against such things as torso knife wounds resort to using jockey vests.
 

Duffy LaCoronilla

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ballistic goggles and ballistic helmets are also *baned, maybe as an added deterent.

as such people wishing to have protection against such things as torso knife wounds resort to using jockey vests.
But why is body armor illegal? It’s not a weapon. Body armor is 100% defensive equipment.

Thats like banning steel toe shoes because they protect your feet. But steel toe shoes are perfectly legal even though they work much better as a weapon than body armor.