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More Americans were shot to death by March 6 this year than died on D-Day
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It's not really about you or I being responsible, but what are the laws in society that lead to grave injustices? I think we have enough stats at hand to prove that current gun laws in the United States are a serious cause of problems, to put it as mildly as possible.
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There is not an alcohol lobby preventing laws against drunk driving from passing. Also alcohol has other purposes than killing things. Bad example.
That's not even the primary problem with that example. Alcohol doesn't exist primarily to cause grave bodily harm to human beings. When someone drinks themselves to death or causes a fatal accident it's because they're using alcohol in a way that's not intended.
When you shoot someone though...
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Yeah. I think I edited my post before you replied with the same thought.
User Banned (3 Days): Disingenuous and inflammatory false equivalences across multiple posts in this thread.
It's unfortunate that so many people drink for the purpose of getting drunk regardless of the manufacturer s desires. If you drink you are responsible for all the deaths associated with alcohol. We should immediately move to reinstate prohibition. Anything short of that is completely unreasonable unless you want children to die so you can drink
What the user was saying (I think) is they are not necessarily a part of that lobby. I own a couple firearms and I donate to anti-gun causes and detest the NRA and fully support 2A reforms.
RE: home invasion
Wouldn't it make more sense to put your gun money into stronger security systems, non-lethal weapons and/or basic combat training.
You know, as opposed to having a death toy lying around?
A gun is "easier" because you point at somebody to shoot and kill, and let's not get into disarming via gun or non-lethal aiming because in a perceived dire situation - unless somebody is well trained - I don't expect people to know what they're going to do other than point and kill.
At the end of the day gun owners just want their toys, right?
Wouldn't it make more sense to put your gun money into stronger security systems, non-lethal weapons and/or basic combat training.
You know, as opposed to having a death toy lying around?
A gun is "easier" because you point at somebody to shoot and kill, and let's not get into disarming via gun or non-lethal aiming because in a perceived dire situation - unless somebody is well trained - I don't expect people to know what they're going to do other than point and kill.
At the end of the day gun owners just want their toys, right?
Again, why are guns manufactured? When you kill someone with a gun it's fulfilling its intended purpose. You don't have to be an irresponsible gun owner to cause a tragedy, they happen each and every day. If you believe that guns are deserving of a place in our society them you are saying it's worth risking those tragedies.
these same laws should apply to you. you are a regular citizen: you don't need a gun, even if it to "protect" you from the mythical boogeyman breaking into your home.
The problem is just the amount of fear in the American society. Fear helped to keep the audience at fox news and other similar operating news outlets. I'm glad that our media isn't at this point yet.