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dotcom-jillionaire t1_jcyfgtx wrote

it's almost like we have too many guns floating around

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ticonderoga- t1_jd0f4y8 wrote

It’s almost like going soft on crime is having negative effects

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bigassbiddy t1_jd2i0xc wrote

Oooh, that's a bingo! Is that the way you say it? "That's a bingo?"

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Five2one521 t1_jd0quv6 wrote

Too many assholes floating around. There’s about 390 million weapons in America. That’s more guns than people. PEOPLE are the problem; not guns.

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gigibuffoon t1_jd0wrfk wrote

Why can't it be both? There's 1.6 billion people in India and way fewer gun related deaths than here and I'll know there are more assholes per capita in India than there are here

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skip_tracer t1_jd18pzo wrote

why is it so hard for people like you to understand that guns can be a part of the problem? I conceal carry and I have several firearms, but I can readily admit that too many guns with easy access is at the root. This shit doesn't happen on the regular in other countries.

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Five2one521 t1_jd27jgb wrote

This country has more freedoms than others. One happens to be guns. But a loaded gun sitting on the table is nothing; but add a person and now there’s a problem.

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Easy_Humor_7949 t1_jd6pbfe wrote

> One happens to be guns.

It doesn’t “happen” to be it was specifically constructed to be one by radical revisionist lawyers in the early 20th century whose tortured arguments were enshrined in legal precedent by Antonin Scalia.

You ever see an old western movie where they have to hang up their guns in town? The typical 19th century western American settler town had more gun control than Philadelphia does today.

> But a loaded gun sitting on the table is nothing;

It’s a threat.

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Five2one521 t1_jd8ybdz wrote

I’ve never seen a gun and thought; “I better watch out for that gun by its self.”

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Easy_Humor_7949 t1_jdbi7pv wrote

Well it’s a good thing guns aren’t ever owned, handled, or used by people. Oh. Wait.

A handgun’s only purpose is to kill you (or another human). A world where easy access to lethal force is the only way you feel safe is a dystopian one you should never want to live in.

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