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I live in Denmark. As do around 5.7 million others, all told. We have no death penalty. In 2015 we had 41 cases of homicide. It can be done.
by interfixus 11y ago
I live in Denmark. As do around 5.7 million others, all told. We have no death penalty.
In 2015 we had 41 cases of homicide.
It can be done.
- 1stop 11y agoDenmark doesn't exactly have the cultural baggage the US has. There isn't a gun culture* (just picking one aspect) at all in Denmark, there is a rich culture in the US to the point that people think you are changing the identity of the country if you reform gun law. Stating that a progressive state that never had such problems can solve them has no meaning. * guns would be the leading cause of homicide in the US.
- sokoloff 11y agoLeading mechanism, not cause, IMO.
- 1stop 11y agoIs there any real difference? Like a trigger is a leading mechanism, but it's the combustion that fires the bullet?
- sokoloff 11y agoThe cause (IMO) is a human who lacks self-control, anger-management, moral compass, or is otherwise broken in a way that causes/allows them to intentionally take the life of a fellow human. The gun/trigger/bullet/gunpowder/whatever is a mechanism of the murder, not the cause. (I'm not a rabid "gun nut" [nor even a gun owner], but blaming guns as the cause is just as fundamentally misplaced as blaming a baseball bat, knife, or rope, IMO.)
- 1stop 11y agoBut the facts don't reflect what you are saying. Removal of guns from a society lowers total murders, it doesn't just move those murders to some other weapon/cause. Look at Australia's crime statistics, or Canada, or Britain before and after serious gun control. They all show this to be true.
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