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"guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people" is the usual rhetoric I see. This is perfectly fine, if you didn't have a country with a mostly failed e
by Incipient 3y ago
"guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people" is the usual rhetoric I see.
This is perfectly fine, if you didn't have a country with a mostly failed education system, increasingly extreme views due to the media, and more and more people getting financially crushed by "trickle down economics".
I get that guns aren't the problem. Unfortunately you have enough of a population that can't be trusted with guns.
- chrismcb 3y agoBecause that rhetoric is true. The number of deaths due to accidental discharge is fairly low. The problem with just banning guns is there is no attempt to solve the underlying problem. That a person picked up a gun with the intention to harm someone else. You take the guns away, that problem still exists, so people will find other tools to use. This happened in Australia. After that great gun ban, the number of homicides remained mostly unchanged. The number of gun deaths decreased by quite a bit. But the number of homicides using other tools increased significantly.