A question of guns

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The only stats I've looked at involved Florida and Texas after passing concealed carry. In both cases, the crime rates dropped after but not to a great degree. This is only ancillary data at best but it did answer the charges that crime would skyrocket or nearly cease to exist that both sides were claiming before the new laws were passed. It was close enough to a wash to tell me that that issue had little bearing on what actually happens. My take is that if you assume most people are law-abiding, the government has no business telling us whether we can possess guns or not. They certainly do need to take care of the few bad apples out there that abuse the right. Plainly, this is how the founding fathers viewed the government, a restricted entity the worked for the people and didn't control them. If enough people decide that guns and society just don't mix, there is a perfectly acceptable way to achieve that. It's called a Constitutional Amendment and bears as much weight as the rest of the Constitution.

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