Do Gun control proponets think that criminals obey laws?

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funeralxempire
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16 Oct 2017, 7:58 pm

leejosepho wrote:
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Only when one's survival is secure do [things like ideology or other abstract concerns] start to become important.

No, that is when people tend to become complacent unless they have already assumed responsibility for their own security.


You're certainly entitled to believe that. :wink:


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17 Oct 2017, 7:40 am

funeralxempire wrote:
leejosepho wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Only when one's survival is secure do [things like ideology or other abstract concerns] start to become important.

No, that is when people tend to become complacent unless they have already assumed responsibility for their own security.

You're certainly entitled to believe that. :wink:

From where or from whom else might you suggest the security had come?


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17 Oct 2017, 3:43 pm

leejosepho wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
leejosepho wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Only when one's survival is secure do [things like ideology or other abstract concerns] start to become important.

No, that is when people tend to become complacent unless they have already assumed responsibility for their own security.

You're certainly entitled to believe that. :wink:

From where or from whom else might you suggest the security had come?


Either individually or through participation in a relatively secure society, or both. :roll:
Do you have anything resembling a point to get to?


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