• archonet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    cool false equivalency bro

    You do realize people have been getting better at killing each other for as long as we’ve worked out that “big rock on head kill Ook”, right? That’s not going to suddenly up and vanish like a fart in the wind just because you’re scared of, and kneejerk ban, some inanimate black polymer and metal. It’s almost like there’s a deeper root cause to the issue that slapping a bandaid on won’t fix.

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      1 year ago

      So according to you just because we haven’t figured out how to stop it we should just throw in the towel, right?

      Gtfo with your fatalism.

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        1 year ago

        No, it’s that our efforts should be focused on actually solving the root cause instead of slapping a bandaid on the issue.

        GTFO with your strawman.

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      1 year ago

      Actually you are the one work the false equivalency.

      You know why your comparison is idiotic? Because it is comparing a mountain (gun violence) to a mole hill (vehicular homicide). If what you said was at all accurate, people would be using those methods significantly more often in other developed countries. Guess what? They don’t. They are used at basically the same rates as here in the US. The major difference is that those countries have much guns per capita.

      So again stop pretending like the comparison is even close to a good one or that you have some sort of gotcha.

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        1 year ago

        These “other countries” – tell me, do they happen to have as terrible a healthcare system as ours, or would you say they have a better one?

        Ope, found the hole in your argument there champ.

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          1 year ago

          For mental health? Most of them are not much better. Try again.

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              1 year ago

              Japan and South Korea, for instances, are certainly not known for their great mental health. Guess what they don’t have? No constant mass shootings, no trucks being used to mow people down, no constant fertilizer bombs.