• sudo22@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t feel like writing an essay to address all your points, I don’t have the time right now I’m sorry. Ultimately it comes down to the fact the highest law (and most state constitutions) of the land gives us the inalienable right to arms. Period. (And no “well regulated” does not mean legal regulations)

    I believe we would be far better off dealing with the root of violence, like many European countries have done but gun control advocates like to only focus on gun control laws. People with financial, health, reproductive, and employment security don’t commit violent crimes. Things like labor protections, maternity/paternity leave, mandatory vacation time, physical and mental healthcare that won’t bankrupt you are some of the things that dramatically reduce all violent crime regardless of the tool used.

    Look at violent crimes in the US compared to the UK for things like murder using only the human body (ie kicks, punches, strangulation, etc), its lower per 100k in the UK and many other European countries. There’s no body control laws restricting how strong or trained your body can be, yet its lower. Its because people who’s needs are actually met don’t need to turn to or are driven to crime, our social protections in the USA suck ass and need to be fixed.

    • SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I agree with you. Even if the US got rid of every single gun in the country we’d probably still have just as many murders. There’s something else at play here that causes us to be violent. As a general rule happy people don’t kill others. Legislation to fix our social issues would go a long way towards reducing violence, but it’s a whole lot easier to just say “guns bad”.

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        1 year ago

        Even if the US got rid of every single gun in the country we’d probably still have just as many murders.

        Absolutely not. Your odds of surviving a knife attack are an order of magnitude higher than of you are shot.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah sounds good. How about we take your guns now and when you’ve finished building all of that, you can have them back?

      After all, your post is clearly admitting that American society isn’t fit for the near indiscriminate sale of guns to citizens.