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It's not a question of less crime/more crime, it's more like how fatal the consequences are.
everyone i know has been mugged more than once and they're still around, i'm pretty sure if they had a gun something worse would have happened - they would have been shot, they would have shot someone, both cases would have been worse than having personal belongings taken away.
hate crime will continue existing, but we just make it easier for people to kill people by giving them guns.
on the top of my mind here are the news i remember seeing on tv yesterday:
- 12 year old boy is shot in the dark in his street because he looked like a member of a gang they wanted killed.
- woman is sitting by the beach with her husband when a bullet coming from god knows where goes through her face.
I don't imagine these things would have happened with knives.
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