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by phpnode
4925 days ago
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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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