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Fenixgoon

Lifer
Jun 30, 2003
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Yes (with the assumption that everyone will automatically know how to use a gun and that the gun has infinite or excess supply of bullets). The bad guys ALREADY HAVE GUNS. Now the playing field is evened out a bit. Even then, people that get a gun but don't want it can sell it for something else, basically free money.

Does the magic button spit out random guns in everyone's hands and if not what kind of gun (handgun, Rifle, Assault Rifle...)

exactly. disarming the populace only gives criminals further advantage. an armed society is a polite one.
 

LookBehindYou

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Dec 23, 2010
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Yes.

The idiots could work themselves out of existence. Prisons would clear themselves out. I think we'd be much better off.

After a week, press a new button and all the guns are gone. We could call it instant natural selection.
 

waffleironhead

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Aug 10, 2005
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Why would thousands be saved? Everyone would be on a level ground everyone would have guns, victims and attackers.

Victims whom would otherwise have been killed, now have the ability to defend themselves, giving the already armed second thoughts on committing their agenda.
 

HAL9000

Lifer
Oct 17, 2010
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Victims whom would otherwise have been killed, now have the ability to defend themselves, giving the already armed second thoughts on committing their agenda.

And Criminals who would otherwise note have been armed when committing a crime would have guns.

People in tense situations would all be armed.

People too young or inexperienced to use a gun responsibly would have them.

People who otherwise wouldn't kill someone might.
 

SlitheryDee

Lifer
Feb 2, 2005
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As long as the gun came wit the knowledge that everyone else has a gun. Only the dumbest people would fuck with anyone then.

...what about children though?
 

BrokenVisage

Lifer
Jan 29, 2005
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Pro-life nuts would be caught in a conundrum if they say yes, would that mean a pregnant lady would have to give birth to a child AND a gun? I mean, the child is considered alive in the womb, soooo..
 

HAL9000

Lifer
Oct 17, 2010
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Pro-life nuts would be caught in a conundrum if they say yes, would that mean a pregnant lady would have to give birth to a child AND a gun? I mean, the child is considered alive in the womb, soooo..

I'm pro life and I don't think that way, but it's for another thread.