# Gun control wouldn't have stopped what happened in Vegas...should we do it anyway?

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**Created:** [October 3, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-control-wouldnt-have-stopped-what-happened-in-vegas-should-we-do-it-anyway/797873 "2017-10-03T15:32:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-control-wouldnt-have-stopped-what-happened-in-vegas-should-we-do-it-anyway/797873/565 "2017-10-12T16:38:35Z")

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> [@XT](#):
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> Don’t you think you should try and find out before you make some ridiculous and arbitrary statements or assertions? Just a thought.
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> I don’t live ‘in the world outside of society’, by which I figure you mean in a country that isn’t the US. I live here.
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> Who said anything about God? Well, you did in your strawman. You seem to do that a lot. How could it be revoked? Oh, I don’t know…by the process we have that has overturned Amendments in the past? Have you ever thought about, I don’t know, reading a history book (or a basic civics book) while you read up on the other stuff you don’t know anything about? I’ll give you a small hint though…no magic gods are required.
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> NOW we are back on Earth.
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> You basically pulled a number out of your ass. Look up what ‘arbitrary’ means while you are doing that other research then get back to me.

Guess I hit a nerve with you?

This is what arbitrary means : “adjective 1. subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one’s discretion:  
an arbitrary decision.”

You are an anonymous internet poster. Do you think that your opinions are not pulled out of your own ass? Get off your horse.

I don’t care to try to find out how many gun owners are “hoarders” I’ll let you go to town.

Here is an arbitrary number: You want a second gun you pay $100,000 “shooter surcharge” and if you want a third it’s $200,000. And so on.

I think the thing to do is get the gun owners on the grid. How many, what you need them for etc. It’s coming, so I don’t want you to be too traumatized.

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