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As a non-US citizen I'd like to reiterate that you can get rid of this idiocy only by banning guns.
Not interested in American opinion regrading this one, sorry, it's a super simple fact with no discussion worth wasting time for us.
I, from the UK, once had a 'conversation' about gun control with an American on Reddit. What brought this about was the day before a 9 year old girl was killed by a stray bullet from a drive-by. One moment she was in her bedroom doing some homework, and the next she was dead.
After a lot of back and forth with him getting more flummoxed and aggressive he then said something like "If she was outside playing like a normal kid then she wouldn't have been killed."
Yep, he blamed her.
That was the time I realised it was a waste of everything talking about it.
people who argue that their right to guns is more important than a persons right to life is inherently moronic, and shouldn't be listened to.
One thing I've learned is that, if you write a comment with reasonable
balance of views and still get attacks, the posters are people without proper trainings on critical debates.
In case of the gun ban, it's even worse because most people never lived in the rest of the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
Are guns legal in: El Salvador, Venezuela, Eswatini, Jamaica, Honduras, Guatemala, Brazil, and Columbia?
All of those nations have higher firearm death rates than the US.
If guns are illegal in any of the nations with higher firearm death rates than the US, then can you acknowledge that banning guns is not the only issue? Maybe culture has something to do with it?
you just named countries well known for organized crime and corrupt government officials.
I don't think it is the same
Can you acknowledge that some issues require addressing multiple factors? Or can your brain not handle that level of complex thought?
I literally said "banning guns is not the only issue."
Learn to read before you start insulting someone else's intelligence.
The "issue" is not banning guns.
The issue is people dying en masse repeatedly from guns.
Get that straight. Banning guns is a partial solution that helps to address the issue in literally every single western country.
Get what straight? Your views even though many other people in this comment chain say banning guns is the solution?
Really? Another person said it's gun control, not banning.
Answer the question: multiple factors contribute to a problem, do you a) address none of them or b) address all of them?
B.
Some people in this thread think banning guns will solve the problem. They believe the only reason the US firearm death rate is so high is because guns are legal.
And they are right.
The widespread availability of guns is one of the factors contributing to the rate and severity of gun crime, and needs to be addressed, in addition to poverty and mental health.
It's really not complicated.
Those people are power seeking bullies and banning guns absolutely won't stop them from killing others. They'll just smuggle them in, or use or build other weapons to accomplish the same goal.
You care way more about banning guns than solving the problem and it is obvious to anyone with any insight.
While I agree that banning guns won't eliminate people illegally smuggling guns in, I'd still really appreciate it if the US would ban (most) firearms, that way Canada could chill the fuck out and have sensible gun laws without a freeking firehose of illegal and cheap guns blasting us from the south.
There are many ways to legislate and protect the population while allowing responsible and vetted citizens to own and use firearms, they just all get throw out the window when it's easier to drive one over the border in a 3 hour black Friday round trip for 1/3 the price than it is to jump through the legal hoops to be allowed to purchase and own one here.
Well then, they're very much right to accuse you of exploiting a tragedy to push a political agenda, aren't they?
Leave your gun ban crap in your filthy-ass bedroom and let the rest of us deal with how to save our children from ourselves and our broken society.
You meant to say 'save the children from the guns being used to murder them', but mistyped it.
Pardon?
the fuck are you trying to say here???
Banning guns is the only issue. Full stop.
Why are you swearing at me and using multiple question marks?
ok tone police
What a snowflake.
be civil to my nuts bitch
Did you not read the part where they said that dumb Americans can shut up and keep their idiocacy to themselves?
Like honestly, this is the DUMBEST fucking argument I've ever heard.
Multiple factors contribute to the both the rate and severity of violent crime, congratulations Einstein! Now answer me this, when multiple factors contribute to something happening, and you want to stop that something from happening, do you a) sit around and do nothing and say it's impossible to address in any way shape or form cause the solution requires addressing multiple factors, or do you b) try and address all the factors contributing to it, starting with the easiest and most obvious ones?
Like Jesus Christ, think with your fucking brain, not the lead dust poisoning it.
Calm down and people might take you seriously.
Say something that's not a brain dead NRA argument if you want people to not insult your intelligence.
Tell us again how when multiple factors contribute to a problem that means you can't address any of them.
That was your argument right?
Guns are legal in all those countries besides Venezuela. Cos guns are legal in most of the world. It's just they are generally controlled. And Venezuela is on the verge on collapse anyway. I don't think this is the slam dunk argument you think it is.
Then why doesn't most of the world have a firearm homicide rate comparable to that of the US?
Literally suggested a reason for that with my very next sentence.
So you don't think guns should be banned?
You're not arguing in good faith here. I've answered you're initial, idiotic, comment. I've answered your second, idiotic, comment that was highly selective in what it quoted of me as if it was trying to "gotcha" me. And now this horseshit? I've already alluded to how most of the rest of the world does it, I suggest you go read up on it rather than trying to push your agenda on me.