• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Or we could just touch guns instead of pretending we only need to completely fix every aspect of our society instead.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      450+ million firearms. When they effectively banned firearms in Australia…60% was the turn in rate. You know how many millions will be left? Which the majority will stay in the crimals hands? And that’s if 60% handed them in. It’s not happening

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        270 million fewer firearms sounds great. Australia’s 60% turn in rate wasn’t 100% and it worked, and having fewer firearms in circulation means fewer firearm deaths and fewer firearms available to criminals and a continual reduction over time as new firearms aren’t added to the system.

        Gun nuts just throw shit at the wall to see what sticks. Sometimes it’s that all those guns aren’t a problem, sometimes it’s that it’s too big a problem. You’re just tedious.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, now Australia is having their human rights stripped away at an alarming rate. What a victory for liberty!

    • Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      I wish you the best of luck in addressing that symptom in a society where such bans aren’t commonly-supported, where the law isn’t conducive to such, where there’s such an incredible established base of ownership, and where “fuck the government and/or police” is the prevailing theme.

      By all means, when you’ve discovered some way of meaningfully and feaaibly surmounting these, share with the class. You’ll be the first to have done so.

      Meanwhile, the rest of us will focus on the root issues - the pressures toward violence - rather than only caring someone decided to use a rifle to when finally pushed to the brink.