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While you are not wrong that there are other ways to commit mass killings, in pretty much all countries with no guns, you don't see these alternate events. So
by bruce511 4y ago
While you are not wrong that there are other ways to commit mass killings, in pretty much all countries with no guns, you don't see these alternate events.
So the outcomes you suggest are perhaps not the logical outcome of removing guns from society.
As an example if I take Europe as a whole (the bits not in an active conflict) there aren't 600 events a year of water poisoning or trucks in crowds etc.
Now true, they have different approaches to handling mental illness, so that's a factor, but even so.
- DeathArrow 4y agoBut there are many countries in Europe that allow people to own guns. And, while we have less shootings per capita than in US, there were also attempts to do mass killings by other means: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38373867 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38373867