Citizens have the natural right and the common sense duty to protect themselves, their families, their communities, and their property...guns are the equalizing tools of self-protection, utopian lamentations notwithstanding.
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Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.
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The public may actually be endangered more by banning less deadly weapons, handguns and "assault weapons"... criminals have indicated they would substitute more deadly weapons (e.g. shotguns and rifles, which can be easily made concealable by using a hacksaw...), rather than less deadly weapons.
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