| > You don't seem very open to changing your perspective, but if you care to peruse a subreddit dedicated to reporting defensive gun use in the news, it contains a ton of stories that you've likely never encountered[0]. Of course there are cases of defensive gun use. But there are also cases of idiotic gun use: > Deputies with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office arrested three people after one man was shot. Investigators said the shooting victim was shot after an argument about the victim’s alleged littering. * https://www.wkrg.com/northwest-florida/escambia-county/man-s... > Houston man accused of shooting restaurant workers over BBQ sauce * https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/02/26/houston-... > A Utah father was taken into custody after police said he told his 4-year-old child to fire at officers following a dispute over an order at the McDonald's drive-thru in Midvale. * https://kutv.com/news/local/suspect-in-custody-after-shootin... Examples taken from: * https://twitter.com/well_regulated_ Right across the US border Canada manages to have a safe society without everyone packing heat. And it's not like gun ownership is unheard of in Canada, given it's 7th in per capita ownership: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g... For tracking mass shootings, the US has a separate Wikipedia page for each calendar year: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_... Meanwhile the list of massacres (not even all being shootings) fits on one page for Canada: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Canada The idea that firearms make one safer, either at home: * https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M13-1301?articleid=1... or in public: * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759797/ does not seem to be borne out by the statistical data. |