niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Sent1: DC doesn't need to have an age restriction on gun ownership, because no matter what their laws say, you still have to be at least 18 to pass a federal background check to buy a gun.
 Sent2: No it's federal law that you have to run background checks in order to keep your FFL (federal firearms license) which allows you to legally sell guns.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: 1) Protection - The argument suggests that guns protect us from dangerous individuals.
 Sent2: It wouldn't protect the guns owned at the home of someone in the National Guard.]
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Since there are gun deaths in countries that have banned guns, the gun bans did not work.
 Sent2: there are too many gun deaths and while there will never be a ban in America i find it appalling that so many fight to prevent gun restrictions and background checks.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: But gun hater pilot will demand that the right to bear arms be limited or banned to keep criminals from getting guns.
 Sent2: Gun haters will stop when the right to bear arms is banned!
Output: Similar
Sent1: The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
 Sent2: Every person has a right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: However, even though there were less deaths, there was a surge in gun crime, death and non-death related, after the ban on guns.
 Sent2: DC's highest gun deaths per capita coincidences with the fact that guns are legal there, doesn't mean anywhere guns are legal crime rates will be high.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Private citizens can never hope to acquire firearms when gun control laws exist, but all 'criminals' have instant connections to black-market arms dealers.
 Sent2: It's pointless people with criminal backgrounds aren't buying guns from gun stores (all of which already run background checks) there are no background checks on the black market and laws won't change that.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Although I still think that certain regulations need to be set in place in order to control the distribution of guns, complete gun control is not the answer; however, something still needs to be done.
 Sent2: I think a better debate would be when should gun control start?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The laws the gun haters want will keep the right to bear arms from the law abiding citizens!
 Sent2: Common sense gun control laws the gun haters want will only affect the law abiding citizens, not the criminals.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Perhaps if other types of firearms were as strictly regulated as machine guns are then we could make some real progress in reducing gun violence and murder.
 Sent2: We have guns and we still have crime and lots of gun deaths.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Another large source of guns used in crimes are unlicensed street dealers who either get their guns through illegal transactions with licensed dealers, straw purchases, or from gun thefts.
 Sent2: When neither party to a transaction is a licensed firearms dealer, firearms transfers must be completed through a licensed dealer.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We didn't ban all guns, just most of them, because our farmers need them and our police need them.
 Sent2: Do you expect us to do it with single shot rifles and BB guns, because the government found that our handguns and AR-15s aren't suitable for civilian ownership and banned them?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Gun laws and bans are put in place that only affect good law abiding free citizens.
 Sent2: Law abiding citizens are not going to misuse their firearms and those with criminal records are already banned from owning guns.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If gun control will not affect criminal ownership of guns and people will always be able to get a firearm if they want, why should a government make the effort to ban firearms as a precursor to atrocities?
 Sent2: That will take the criminals off the street and with them off the street there are no gun control concerns.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Most gun owners are just ordinary people who happen to own a firearm.
 Sent2: Cars kill people everyday just the same as guns, but nobody is trying to ban cars.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: gun control doesent solve anything in fact it makes crime go up because the criminals will always get their guns and your only disarming the law abiding citizens thus making them easy victims from the criminals.
 Sent2: Strange isn't where the law abiding are disarmed by the gun control idea of wet dream laws yet there are still firearms floating about the criminal classes.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Burglars do not use guns, muggers do not use guns.
 Sent2: Other felons, such as car thieves, burglars and whomever else can be convicted of felonies without the use of guns might be considered for a reprieve or a complete release from the ownership ban.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Gun free zones are areas where law-abiding citizens are forbidden to carry guns.
 Sent2: Making a gun free zone does nothing to prevent guns from entering it.
Output: Similar
Sent1: If today we were to ban guns all the law abiding citizens would give up their firearms and protection.
 Sent2: Gun laws and bans are put in place that only affect good law abiding free citizens.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Gun haters will stop when the right to bear arms is banned!
 Sent2: A gun haters is a person that wants gun control laws that infringe on the right to bear arms or wants to ban the right to bear arms.
Output: Similar
Sent1: This appeared to me to be an argument that self defense cannot exist if a gun is used.
 Sent2: Like I said before, claiming that semi-automatic rifles get a lower level of constitutional protection than handguns because they are less useful for self defense seems absurd from historical point of view.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: We tell them what was meant when the law passed, but even these gun owners do not care what was meant, they only care what the law says!
 Sent2: We support letting people who already have guns actually being allowed to carry them, but I haven't seen anyone saying that we have to get hundreds of thousands of more guns bought up and distributed.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Gun ban = No civilians can protect themselves using a firearm = Criminals can illegally purchase guns, like tons already do.
 Sent2: Burglars do not use guns, muggers do not use guns.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So if you want to ban guns, 1,531,764 people will get killed or injured, and you'll only take guns out of the hands of those who don't even commit gun crimes.
 Sent2: Therefore you feel more guns is the solution to stopping gun crime.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: People like Brady blame the gun and say because one man uses a gun to harm someone then no one can be trusted with guns.
 Sent2: Do not ban guns when guns are the tools of man.
Output: Similar
Sent1: I like how anti gun people say we need to protect everyone from the rare gun events by banning guns, but when someone suggests banning the more frequent hammer and club attacks, they can justify those deaths.
 Sent2: If so, they need to explain why they would leave some firearms, handguns say, in the hands of the people which are involved in more officer deaths than the ones they recommend banning.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: One of the reason we are the country we are is because of our right to own guns.
 Sent2: Maybe since we have a much higher concentration of homes with firearms than our fellow citizens in Cleveland, we can say guns are the cause of our low murder rate!
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If gun bans worked there would be no gun deaths in the countries that have banned guns.
 Sent2: If the D.C. gun ban was ineffective because illegal guns were leaking into D.C. from other states that would be an argument for having more gun control in other states.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: That said, the idea that non gun homicides dont increase does not show causation between high gun ownership and increased murder rates.
 Sent2: states with higher rates of household firearm ownership had significantly higher homicide victimization rates for children, and for women and men.States With Higher Levels Of Gun Ownership Have Higher Homicide Rates
Output: Similar
Sent1: I do not believe OTHERS should not have guns, I think criminals and psychos who are yet to convict a gun crime should not have guns.
 Sent2: I think some of the courts that have quoted that sentence from Heller to justify laws that ban felons from owning firearms would disagree.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: The PA constitution has provisions for both duty to serve and Right to bear arms, A provision from Address of PA Minority contains defense of state as well as hunting so clearly both individual and collective purposes.
 Sent2: The PA Minority also offered two provisions, one for an unambiguously individual right and another that the state could arm/train militia if Congress neglected.
Output: Similar
Sent1: So tell me Brady, exactly what gun control laws HAVE saved lives.
 Sent2: So, no, I wouldn't say there was any "gun control" as you (Galileo) tried to pass off as early gun control laws.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Now when you rightfully talk about how the 2nd amendment grants me the right to own a gun people won't take you seriously because you think the 2nd amendment cannot be repealed.
 Sent2: Which would be worthless because you could just repeal that amendment and then repeal the 2nd.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: For instance I don't think that eliminating gun control is the only answer crime control is also needed.
 Sent2: Name me one gun control law that has been effective as crime control!!!!!!
Output: Similar
Sent1: As far as guns, it is difficult to say because currently as in the past, you are not allowed to carry a gun on board an aircraft.
 Sent2: Aren't you the one who used to complain that airlines can't choose to allow private citizens to carry guns on planes because of government regulations?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: So somebody try and tell us, that with stuff like this going on, that America still needs to overhaul its gun laws to bring them more in line with those of Mexico.
 Sent2: If a person does not want to own or carry a gun then so be it, and if an individual does own guns then like wise.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: In England, where currently the private ownership of hand guns by the law abiding is absolutely prohibited, crimes involving the use of guns are rapidly increasing: only the criminals have access to them.
 Sent2: Gun ownership is a protected right, and the fact that criminals use guns in the commission of crime will never change this fact.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Please tell the murder victims in these other countries that gun control works.
 Sent2: So an article that is entitled "Gun control doesn't reduce crime, violence, say studies" is not claiming that gun control is ineffective?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Criminals that do not obey gun control laws will be able to obtain guns and use them on the unarmed law-abiding citizens.
 Sent2: Gun control laws do not deprive gun ownership for those who do not follow laws.
Output: Similar
Sent1: Gun control will not work because criminals do not obey gun control laws.
 Sent2: Gun control laws only control the guns in the hands of people who follow laws.
Output: Similar
Sent1: But is the answer to take down the gun free zones...and just allow kids to carry guns to school?
 Sent2: Making a gun free zone does nothing to prevent guns from entering it.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: Gun ownership is a protected right, and the fact that criminals use guns in the commission of crime will never change this fact.
 Sent2: Burglars do not use guns, muggers do not use guns.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: If guns would be made illegal, then only criminals would have them.
 Sent2: Illegal firearms can be identified and linked to other firearms and to crimes and criminals.
Output: Not similar
Sent1: You can debate that without guns there would be more deaths to other weapons although you can't debate it would be to the same extent as gun murders and crimes would be.
 Sent2: Are you saying that since all guns have been banned for civilian use in Countries like England, that murders by guns and gun crimes have gone to absolute zero there?
Output: Not similar
Sent1: While their by no means should be an outlaw of guns, I do believe restrictions should be put in place.
 Sent2: Whether to hunt, protect their homes or defend themselves from a tyrannical government, many Americans believe that the government has no right to restrict their access to firearms.
Output: Not similar