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Your downvotes show why this problem will never be solved. Getting rid of guns is not going to solve violent people.

• thomastjeffery 5y ago
  That isn't the argument here. The argument is that giving people guns is not going to solve violent people.
• saiya-jin 5y ago
  In the same vein, adding more guns to the equation isn't going to solve violence/crime either
• nuerow 5y ago
  > Getting rid of guns is not going to solve violent people. I do not understand this "the proposed solution is either a panacea of don't bother" attitude to major problems in society. The whole point of guns is to make it extremely easy and simple to apply lethal force instantly from a distance onto multiple targets and without any chance of defense. Don't you think that taking that away from practically all attackers improves everyone's chances of surviving an attack?
  • iammisc 5y ago
    The 'proposed solution's tramples on a fundamentally more important right.
    • nuerow 5y ago
      Why do you feel that the right to own a gun is "fundamentally more important" than the right to live your life without the risk of being gunned down?
      • iammisc 5y ago
        Because all life has risk, and the purpose of government is not to eliminate all risk to life. Such a government would be immensely awful. Gun ownership, self defense, and most importantly, the maintenance of real armed power in the population at large discourages a worse outcome, than the loss of any particular life.
• anders_p 5y ago
  I think that the downvotes are because it's pretty disingenuous to remove criminals and poor people from US statistics, before comparing with other nations. Like, I imagine that my country would the greenest & cleanest in the world, if we would get to disregard all factory and car emissions, from our stats. And I'd be rightly downvoted for making that claim.