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Originally Posted by lordjames
Secondly, yes, you do need to prove the correlation. Guns aren't the only "dangerous" things out there, and we could just as easily posit that the presence of those things is the culprit behind the increase in murders (string, knives, cars, etc.).
Just look at the absurdity of this example: The presence of cars is the source of so many drive-by shootings.
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What kind of analogy is that. Cars aren't designed with the specific single purpose of harming people.
I mean, what, if there were no guns, would gang members throw pieces of 'string' at one another? Or maybe there'd be a rapid increase in the number of deaths by drive-by knife-throwings; probably, probably.
Jam it back in, in the dark.