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Sarabando t1_ivq96tt wrote

you can make a gun with a hammer, a drill and a file. Are you going to ban those next? just admit gun control has failed and look into other ways to reduce violence.

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Evideyear t1_ivqqgz2 wrote

Also noting the fact that someone taking the time to print a gun is not going to ask permission from a government. Short of banning printing itself they have an impossible task

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WatchingUShlick t1_ivs01yi wrote

"Failed," except for all the countries with solid gun control laws, that don't have massive firearm crime problems.

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SouthEasternGuy t1_ivsjyxd wrote

Most of the guns that have low gun crime and gun ownership rate also just have low crime in general…They’re also generally in Asia… Japan, Singapore, and especially Korea(where all men know how to use a firearm). Look outside Asia and you’ll find the same pattern. Canada, Netherlands, etc. There are also countries like Switzerland, New Zealand, and Norway that have high gun ownership rates but exceptionally low crime rates.

Gun crime is a cultural and criminal issue rather than a manufacturing issue

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Toridog1 t1_iw00lda wrote

And look at the countries with strict gun control laws that do have high firearms crime problems like Brazil and Mexico. Or the countries with relatively lax gun laws and extremely low gun crime rates like Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

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WatchingUShlick t1_iw0lj4d wrote

Two countries where the gangs have as much power as the government? Also, most of the guns in Mexico came from the US. Hard for your gun control laws to have much effect when they're flowing over the border like a river. Not sure about Brazil, but I can't imagine why they wouldn't make their way down there from the US.

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Toridog1 t1_iw1omkm wrote

Brazilian gangs are famous for making their own guns from pipes and scrap metal, they don’t buy them from the US.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/01/22/common-illicitly-homemade-submachine-guns-brazil/

The fact is that guns really aren’t that complicated and anyone with basic engineering and machining knowledge can make one with hand tools. Sure it won’t be accurate or reliable but you don’t need either of those things to rob an unarmed civilian.

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wolfkeeper t1_ivs1ppn wrote

Gun control, as with other legalistic ways to control or limit human behavior is never perfect, but lack of perfection doesn't mean it doesn't work.

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