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RE: Come and Take It!

in MemeHive2 years ago

You believe less people will be killed by people with guns.

Less people are being killed even as guns proliferate in the US, though. If your premise of more guns making the US more dangerous were accurate, violent crime rates should trend up as carry restrictions are relaxed and more firearms are sold. The opposite trend happened over the past 35 years, with zero demonstrable effect by the Clinton Gun Ban other than the increased threat of government violence against peaceful people.

We see violent crime largely associated with drug gangs, which is a consequence of government prohibition. Mass shootings are rare, and school shootings moreso. The US is a big country with a large population, an industry dedicated to sensationalist "journalism," and a lot of people broken by government institutions.

You keep asking what arguments will change my mind. What arguments will change yours? What facts, evidence, and reasoning will cause you to reconsider your premise that guns are to blame for violence in society?

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That's a great question.

These conversations have already taught me a lot. I didn't realise death by handguns was so much higher than death by rifles.

As you've mentioned, there are a lot of factors at play in the violence in the USA, and so obviously it's always going to be hard to compare lots of different countries or states with each other.

To be convinced that access to guns are not a significant factor in violence in society, I think I'd need to see data from a range of countries with differing levels of firearm regulation on violent deaths, particularly of children.

Has the US become less dangerous over the past 35 years?
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Mass shootings and school shootings are rare ways to die in the US, but both events seem to occur more frequently than in other developed countries.