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Peterdjones comments on Gun Control: How would we know? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Peterdjones 05 January 2013 09:58:34PM -1 points [-]

In a way that increases the chance victims will die or be injured in a confrontation. It's choosing to stand at the end of an arms race.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 06 January 2013 06:45:35AM 1 point [-]

In a way that increases the chance victims will die or be injured in a confrontation.

It also increases the chance the aggressor will die or be injured, thus reducing the motivation to become an aggressor and decreasing the chance that a confrontation occurs in the first place.