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Arguably though, if we invested in way better mental healthcare for all, we might save lives / improve the quality of life for enough individuals to offset the
by jrowley 9y ago
Arguably though, if we invested in way better mental healthcare for all, we might save lives / improve the quality of life for enough individuals to offset the cost off mass shootings. That being said, I think we need to restrict access to guns in general. If the government wanted to take you out, an AR15 is not going to save you from a predator drone or whatever we have in our arsenal.
- 2_listerine_pls 9y agoTake Mexico as an example of a Country where nobody is allowed to have guns. People are regularly abducted from their houses & cars without any means of defense. More have been killed by OC than by mass-shooters.
- Veratyr 9y agoTake Australia as another example of a country where nobody is allowed to have guns (well they are but they need a good reason). The intentional homicide rate is 1/5th of what it is in the US. Cherry picking examples doesn't really bring much to the discussion.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoThe anti-gun side cites Australia all the time. You don't get to accuse him of "cherry picking" for citing a counterexample. If you pull up the list of countries with the highest murder rates, you'll discover that virtually all of them have stringent gun control laws.
- slamdance 9y ago...and strangely enough they have less than 1/10th the population as the US. There are more people in the greater-Los Angeles area than there are in the entire continent of Australia
- Veratyr 9y agoThe rates I'm comparing are per 10k people, so they take this into account.
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