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By this time I know better than to waste my effort trying to make Americans see why guns really are a problem, and one that can be identified, analyzed and solv

by r0h1n 12y ago

By this time I know better than to waste my effort trying to make Americans see why guns really are a problem, and one that can be identified, analyzed and solved far easily than trying to address the "motivations" that turn people into mass killers. Because guns are freedom; guns don't kill people; we need our guns to protect against criminal's guns; blah blah. I've realized many Americans will never see high-caliber/high-capacity assault rifles as an easier problem to solve than mental health or psychopathic triggers. It is also not an XOR, because you can try to solve both in parallel. The rest of us non-Americans are just glad our psychopaths and murderers are nowhere near as effective as American ones. And that our children can go to school without having to practice hiding under their desks to avoid being slaughtered mercilessly by some random guy. With a gun.

Crito 12y ago
> "By this time I know better than to waste my effort trying to make Americans see why guns really are a problem," > "assault rifles" Maybe part of your problem is that you are not particularly informed when it comes to gun laws and crimes committed with guns in the US. Americans, who are familiar with both, immediately notice your ignorance and tune out whatever you are saying. Assault rifles in the US are heavily regulated at the federal level (as are all other automatic weapons). Since 1934, there have only been two murders with legally owned automatic weapons. One was in 1988 (the murderer was a cop^), the other was in 1992. In neither case was the machine gun an assault rifle (both were machine pistols). To put this in perspective, there are hundreds of thousands of legally owned machine guns in the US. Legally owned assault rifles simply are not a problem for America. ^ Worth noting since law enforcement are are still allowed to purchase new automatic weapons, while other American civilians are not.
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by r0h1n 12y ago

Crito 12y ago

> "By this time I know better than to waste my effort trying to make Americans see why guns really are a problem," > "assault rifles" Maybe part of your problem is that you are not particularly informed when it comes to gun laws and crimes committed with guns in the US. Americans, who are familiar with both, immediately notice your ignorance and tune out whatever you are saying. Assault rifles in the US are heavily regulated at the federal level (as are all other automatic weapons). Since 1934, there have only been two murders with legally owned automatic weapons. One was in 1988 (the murderer was a cop^), the other was in 1992. In neither case was the machine gun an assault rifle (both were machine pistols). To put this in perspective, there are hundreds of thousands of legally owned machine guns in the US. Legally owned assault rifles simply are not a problem for America. ^ Worth noting since law enforcement are are still allowed to purchase new automatic weapons, while other American civilians are not.

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