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Originally Posted by Paul M
Its very easy for criminals to get them, and any organised terrorist group would have no difficulty at all. (The IRA never had any difficulties).
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The IRA operated largely before the Dunblane shooting when gun control became much stricter.
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As has been shown multiple times now, banning guns has little effect on terrorist activities, driving a lorry into a crowd can kill and injure as many people as a gun, in fact probably more since you will run out of bullets, you dont tend to run out of fuel so quickly. Should we ban cars and lorries ?
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No we shouldn't ban cars and lorries because their primary usage is not to kill people. The benefits of these things outweigh their risks. Guns can be used to either kill animals or humans and maybe for sport (i.e clay shooting).
Also it's not either/or. Yesterday they could have run people down and then gotten out and and killed more effectively with guns than knifes. The gang stabbings in London would become gang shootings. Robbers would have guns.
Criminals would have a tool that makes killing easier and quicker. If we legalise these things they would have greater demand for it then the average citizen.