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Unrestricted access to toothbrushes doesn’t result in amazing dental hygiene across the country. Mass shootings are a mental health issue. If we were to go to t

Unrestricted access to toothbrushes doesn’t result in amazing dental hygiene across the country. Mass shootings are a mental health issue. If we were to go to the extreme and outlaw all guns, people with severe mental illness who wanted to kill a bunch of people could either buy a gun illegally, or use a knife, a homemade pipe bomb, a vehicle, or a myriad of other ways to kill a lot of people.

nsonha 6y ago
is buying a gun legally and shooting youself/people with it *as easy as* "buying a gun illegally, or use a knife, a homemade pipe bomb, a vehicle"? Mass stabbing? Not a thing. Suicice with a knife? Any idiot knows that it'll be much more painful than a bullet in the head, so they'd think (more than) twice a about that, as opposed to a gun, just pull the trigger and be done with it. How did you even type that comment with a straight face?
- refurb 6y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_van_attack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_van_attack
  - nsonha 6y ago
    Jesus how could I forget the very few van attacks in the past decades that were far outnumbered by mass shooting
    - refurb 6y ago
      That was a lazy response, but my point was you don't need access to gun to commit mass killings. You claimed that nobody would commit a mass killing with anything but a gun. I provided you with an example of where you were wrong.
      - nsonha 6y ago
        > You claimed that nobody would commit a mass killing with anything but a gun Phrasing it like that is a bit disingenuous. The only thing I said was mass stabbing was not a thing, which was wrong I guess. You don't have to read it so literally. The point is gun is one of, if not the most effective vehicle for mass killing. I'm not quite sure what point you're trying to make by saying you can kill a lot of people with other things too. Yes but it's not as easy as killing with a gun that's why those things have not happened to the same degree.
- reducesuffering 6y ago
  > Mass stabbing? Not a thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China I think someone needs to look more into global stats of mass attacks by weapons...
  - nsonha 6y ago
    thanks for completely ignore the point, "it happens" is very different than it being a pandemic level occurence like in the US. Obviously the harm one can inflict with a blade is much less than that of gun, unless you are batman.
kjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 6y ago
And yet, America is the only country where this regularly happens
Judgmentality 6y ago
Maybe we should be looking at the data for guns instead of toothbrushes since we already have it? "There are more public mass shootings in America than in any other country in the world." https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/americas/us-gun-statistics/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/americas/us-gun-statistics/in...

nsonha 6y ago

is buying a gun legally and shooting youself/people with it *as easy as* "buying a gun illegally, or use a knife, a homemade pipe bomb, a vehicle"? Mass stabbing? Not a thing. Suicice with a knife? Any idiot knows that it'll be much more painful than a bullet in the head, so they'd think (more than) twice a about that, as opposed to a gun, just pull the trigger and be done with it. How did you even type that comment with a straight face?

refurb 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_van_attack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_van_attack
- nsonha 6y ago
  Jesus how could I forget the very few van attacks in the past decades that were far outnumbered by mass shooting
  - refurb 6y ago
    That was a lazy response, but my point was you don't need access to gun to commit mass killings. You claimed that nobody would commit a mass killing with anything but a gun. I provided you with an example of where you were wrong.
    - nsonha 6y ago
      > You claimed that nobody would commit a mass killing with anything but a gun Phrasing it like that is a bit disingenuous. The only thing I said was mass stabbing was not a thing, which was wrong I guess. You don't have to read it so literally. The point is gun is one of, if not the most effective vehicle for mass killing. I'm not quite sure what point you're trying to make by saying you can kill a lot of people with other things too. Yes but it's not as easy as killing with a gun that's why those things have not happened to the same degree.
reducesuffering 6y ago
> Mass stabbing? Not a thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China I think someone needs to look more into global stats of mass attacks by weapons...
- nsonha 6y ago
  thanks for completely ignore the point, "it happens" is very different than it being a pandemic level occurence like in the US. Obviously the harm one can inflict with a blade is much less than that of gun, unless you are batman.

kjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 6y ago

And yet, America is the only country where this regularly happens

Judgmentality 6y ago

Maybe we should be looking at the data for guns instead of toothbrushes since we already have it? "There are more public mass shootings in America than in any other country in the world." https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/americas/us-gun-statistics/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/americas/us-gun-statistics/in...