• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    So your argument is 'the law is ineffective, so we best just give up.

    Where did I say that? Murder is already illegal. You gonna make it double illegal?

    Maybe focus on some tangental issues, but don’t do anything to solve the actual problem,

    I’ve already explained the problem, you keep focusing on the tool used. More people are killed with knives than all rifles combined. Yet $100 says you support another pointless AWB dont you?

    which is the ease of obtaining a firearm, legal or otherwise."

    Please please wise one, tell me how you plan on enforcing your ban on a country with 450+ million firearms in circulation.

    Because all of the homicides by firearm are a n acceptable statistic for you as long as you get to keep your guns.

    Considering that (I’ll point this out …again) alcohol kills more people…yep you’re damn right I’m not giving my firearms up until you can magically fix the issues in this country starting with the fascist fucks who are in power.

    And the difference, by the way, between pool deaths and road deaths and all the others you cite, and guns: intent.

    So…again. You don’t care how they die just that guns were the cause. Knives and hands/feet kill more people a year combined than all rifles do…but like I said above you’d be for another AWB.

    The number of people who just snap one day and decide ‘I’m gonna drown my entire family on the pool’ or ‘I’m gonna drive my car through that bitches house and kill her’ is so statistically insignificant that there is no cause to protect society from it

    So…again. You don’t care how they’re killed, just that guns did it, so they’re bad.

    Whereas guns allow such easy access to death that the homicide can be perpetrated before there is any time for rational thoughts. Just pick up a gun, bam, one more dead person.

    Just swerve into civs…one more dead person…just grab the kitchen knife…one more dead person.

    Everything you’re listing has one thing in common that you can’t seem to focus on. Why they did it in the first place. Your bandaid solution is “ban all guns” (because let’s be honest, criminals don’t follow laws, so making more restrictions matters zilch to them, they’ll get one from the black market).