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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 803707" data-attributes="member: 14668">Those who wish to ban or severely restrict gun rights like to use statistics to make the argument that the overall cost to society (murders, accidental deaths, crimes etc.) of allowing gun ownership outweighs the benefits.&nbsp;I only brought up the subject of alcohol to point out that, using those same statistics, one could make an equally valid argument that alcohol should be banned or subjected to the same silly regulations and restrictions that the Kleins of the world would impose upon gun owners.&nbsp;I find it both amusing and a bit hypocritical that Klein and those like him would love nothing more than to regulate how many or what kind of guns that I own, or how I should store them, or how many bullets I should be allowed to load in each magazine....but when I turn their argument around by proposing that the same sort of restrictions be placed upon the alcohol that they choose to drink, they would get all upset at the thought of their &quot;rights&quot; being taken away.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 803707, member: 14668"] Those who wish to ban or severely restrict gun rights like to use statistics to make the argument that the overall [B]cost to society [/B](murders, accidental deaths, crimes etc.) of allowing gun ownership [B]outweighs the benefits.[/B] I only brought up the subject of alcohol to point out that, using those [I]same[/I] statistics, one could make an [B]equally valid [/B]argument that [I]alcohol[/I] should be banned or subjected to the [U]same[/U] silly regulations and restrictions that the Kleins of the world would impose upon gun owners. I find it both amusing and a bit hypocritical that Klein and those like him would love nothing more than to regulate how many or what kind of guns that I own, or how I should store them, or how many bullets I should be allowed to load in each magazine....but when I turn their argument around by proposing that the [I]same[/I] sort of restrictions be placed upon the alcohol that they choose to drink, they would get all upset at the thought of their "rights" being taken away. [/QUOTE]

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