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Prohibition has historically been proven to not work. Even so, the effectiveness of gun laws can't be measured when neighboring states don't have equivalent restrictions. Saying we have 20,000 gun laws and that they don't inherently work is somewhat misleading.

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You’re spouting straight gun propaganda. It has been proven over and over and over that gun restrictions work very effectively. Anything else it’s literally just a lie.

The comment you replied to was calling out gun propaganda. When I said prohibition doesn't work, i'm talking about removing whatever the contraband is has been empirically proven to not work. Guns, drugs, and booze are too proliferated in the US to be effectively prohibited. Unless we can get every state on the same page with equivalent laws across the country, the debate is moot.

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