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Americans kill more people by non-gun means than say Australians total (per year per 100k). Whatever their problem is it's not guns.
by jojobas 4y ago
Americans kill more people by non-gun means than say Australians total (per year per 100k).
Whatever their problem is it's not guns.
- Nextgrid 4y agoGuns are definitely a major problem - a lot of people who shouldn't have access to guns do and use them. I'm not talking about intentional, targeted murders or settling gang disputes - those will happen anyway regardless of the law. However, easy access to guns mean that people in an unstable mental state might use one to commit (mass?) murder in an act of folly that they would otherwise not do (or at the very least significantly reduce the amount of victims if they had to use a knife instead of a ranged weapon).
- Bloating 4y agoOnly in California, where they cause cancer
- jojobas 4y agoThose who want to kill a lot of people just rent a truck and wait for a big public gathering. What you describe is a definition of a nanny state.
- staringback 4y ago> I'm not talking about intentional, targeted murders or settling gang disputes Once you exclude these.... > commit (mass?) murder in an act of folly that they would otherwise not do These become so rare that they are effectively non existent when compared to literally any other cause of death.
- dTal 4y agoGuns are a problem. Yes, America has an incredibly violent "macho" culture for a so-called first world country, in general and not just as it pertains to firearms. It's probable that the high rate of gun ownership is a symptom of this rather than a cause. But given that this is the case, proliferating the means for people to easily murder each other in such a society is obviously going to exacerbate things.