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by prepend
1482 days ago
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The pull a gun over trash scenario is kind of ridiculous because the gun puller would be arrested. And it just doesn’t happen. It would go like this:
1) I leave trash out
2) Neighbor yells and pulls out gun
3) I put up trash
4) I call police, neighbor is arrested and gun is taken away forever. I think there’s a perception of “crazy people owning guns” means they are just randomly doing things. Gun owners are typically pretty responsible or self-destructive. Half the US owns guns and there aren’t many crimes percentage wise. So the vast, vast majority just never do stuff with their gun. The actual argument is about the extreme outliers who murder people and commit mass shootings. There’s 20M firearm homicides [0] so that’s still super rare as a rate but the impact of each event is super impactful. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm |
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