Why Guns Don T Kill People

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Moore claims the use of guns for deadly purposes is characteristically American, and he says to the behavior of people in other nations that have guns in an attempt to prove this. According to to the Reporter, Moore said, “It’s clear that the NRA is actually half-right in their slogan, ‘Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.’ We just need to modify that to: ‘Guns don’t kill people Americans kill people.'” To bolster this claim, Moore pointed to Canadians, who have “an estimated five million hunting rifles and shotguns in their homes” yet “don’t go and shoot each other on a daily basis like we do.”
He pointed that japan and Australia have draconian guns in place and us Americans will have them and always will. Even though if we add more

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