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by phpnode 4925 days ago
Your comparison of gun related deaths to natural deaths is completely nonsensical.

How about this, the USA has both one of the highest murder rates, and some of the most relaxed gun laws in the first world. I am 3.5x as likely to get murdered in the USA compared to the UK. Around 66% of murders in the USA involve a firearm compared to 7% in the UK.

I am 33x as likely to be shot to death in the USA compared to the UK.

Don't you think that someone with easy access to a gun is more likely to commit murder in the heat of an argument compared to someone who doesn't?

Do you really believe that easy access to guns is a good thing?

Do you really believe that having access to guns will prevent a dictatorship in the USA? I don't. I think that would ensure a bloody civil war. As someone else on here pointed out recently, non violent mass protest is far more likely to effect change because a striking workforce can cripple an economy rather quickly.

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A striking work force isn't going to work when you are easily thrown into forced labor camps because you have been neutered in your ability to defend yourself.
Please answer all my questions rather than just sniping at one of them.

How are your small arms going to defend against tanks, apaches, drones and the rest of your government's military might? Your reasoning is at least 60 years out of date. The prevalence of guns in america is a cancer on the american people.