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Might as well not have any laws or regulations ever, then.
by minikites 6y ago
Might as well not have any laws or regulations ever, then.
- HideousKojima 6y agoOr you could simply add additional penalties for commiting actual violent crimes with weapons, which we already do. See, for example, strongarm robbery vs armed robbery. That way criminals are punished for misuse of firearms while law abiding owners don't have their rights infringed.
- sofixa 6y agoAnd how is that working out? Last time i checked, the US was leading in violent crime, death and suicide by guns, mass shootings, etc. among developed nations, by a lot.
- HideousKojima 6y agoWhy does it matter if someone is murdered by a gun vs. cut into cubes by a cartel or brained with a hammer or anything else? If you don't limit it to murders and suicides by guns, your claim is flatly untrue. Japan's suicide rate is greater than the US's murders and suicides combined. Russia has far more murders despite having fairly restrictive gun laws. In any case, the US is inherently more violent and criminal than other nations in general independent of guns. It also has extremely violent subpopulations centered in major urban centers that tilt the numbers significantly. Outside of a few specific cities like Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, etc. the US is extremely peaceful and low in crime.
- leesalminen 6y agoDon’t forget about acid attacks which from what I understand are far more prevalent in the UK than the US.
- kbenson 6y agoI'm not sure what this has has to do with what I said. To me it appears to be a non-sequitur, so I suspect either I and completely missing what you're trying to express, or you misunderstood what I was.