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no one wants to live wild west style, because crazy people, occasionally go crazy. this fear of being "sitting ducks". you put yourself in hundreds of "sitting duck" situations every year. what's stopping a crazed oncoming driver from swerving into oncoming traffic? how do we stop depressed airline pilots from flying an entire plane full of people into the side of a mountain. what is to stop childcare workers from abusing your baby, toddler, non verbal child. if we worried about being sitting ducks we could not function as a society.
Yeah, it's a real mystery. Only one country has everyone walking around with loaded guns, and yet that same country is the only one with tons of gun related murders. Gee, I wonder if there's a connection...
Naah, that's commie pinko talk. Guns keep people safe! That's why Europe and Canada and Australia, with tougher gun rules, have like 5% of the gun related crime of the U.S., despite having similar overall crime rates. We gotta keep our Freedumb in the US of A. Uh, right??
He attacked TWO different military sites. No one was killed at the first site. He sped off and drove more than seven miles away to a Navy support center--that's where the four victims were killed. Why wasn't the second location put on lock down after the first incident?
Yeah, it's a real mystery. Only one country has everyone walking around with loaded guns, and yet that same country is the only one with tons of gun related murders. Gee, I wonder if there's a connection...
Which country is that? It's definitely not the USA... or are you being hyperbolic? About 4-5% of the population has a carry permit. Considering that a large percentage of those people don't carry (I have a permit but don't regularly carry because of work and school constraints) and other people carry who don't have permits, let's go with 4%. Also assume that the majority of the people carrying live in rural areas without frequent contact with other people and where police have response times measured in hours. How is this "everyone"?
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Originally Posted by NOLA101
Naah, that's commie pinko talk. Guns keep people safe! That's why Europe and Canada and Australia, with tougher gun rules, have like 5% of the gun related crime of the U.S., despite having similar overall crime rates. We gotta keep our Freedumb in the US of A. Uh, right??
Of course there is less "gun crime" in areas with fewer guns... duh. That's a dumb statistic. The question is whether there is less TOTAL crime. It's like banning Toyotas then bragging about how "Toyota crash" violence has decreased.
So the gun nuts are blaming yet another shooting on not enough guns.
We have like 10x as many guns per capita as any other wealthy nation, but, nope, still not enough. Maybe give everyone tactical nukes and that will finally keep everyone safe.
What's your answer, then? Confiscation of all lawfully owned firearms?
I'm no 'gun nut,' I'm just wondering what you think the solution is. Cat's kind of out of the bag as far as the guns per capita.
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