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• Gun rights supporters have their own vision of the way society should work 
• Guns play an important part in supporting individual freedoms and protecting privete citizens from both crime and government tyranny
• Their position is that the guns both save lives and reduce crime

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• Gun-fights supporters see such guns in poeple's stories as proof of the effectiveness of guns in saving lives and property
• Gun owners who have never used their guns for self defense find solace in the fact that the gun is there if needed

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• A second line of argument for supporters of gun control laws is that guns promote crime
• They cite federal studies that seek to trace guns used to commit crimes
• A second ready source of hard-to-trace guns is private sales at the more than four thousand gun shows held each year in the US

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• Raise the minimun age for possessing a handgun to twenty-one
• Prohibit gun sales to people over eighteen who commited violent crimes
• Extend the 1994 ban on US manufacture of large-capacity ammunition magazines

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• Gun-Control advocates have claimed that terrorists or their supporters were buying weapons at US gun shows and shipping them to terrorists overseas
• Drug dealers wont apply for gun licenses and they won't go to gun stores and buy registered guns