• Pavel Chichikov@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    How about you just give them guns so they can shoot the acid attackers. Turns out, you don’t need much training with a gun. Point shoot. Very simple. Point shoot. School shooters figure it out just fine.

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      3 hours ago

      I don’t even know where to start.

      There will be fewer acid attacks with guns because everyone will have access to a way more convenient and easy way of harming each other, yes.

      So…problem solved?

      Which side of the argument are you actually on?

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        40 minutes ago
        • There are plenty of convenient and easy ways or harming each other outside of guns (France circa 2016). The same goes for suicide. So banning guns doesn’t actually make it “harder” for people to harm one another.
        • Gun control doesn’t work anyways (Winnenden School Shooting, Jokela School Shooting Finland, 2007, Alphen aan den Rijn Shopping Mall Shooting in Netherlands, 2011, etc. etc.).
        • Guns save more productive civilian lives than the the criminal lives they take, and people like you purposefully ignore this fact. In trying to save a few hundred or maybe thousand lives from gun violence (most of which are violent criminals themselves), you people are willing to deprive millions of innocent hard working people the ability to defend themselves. You know nothing.
        • Even if all of this was false, the ability to resist tyranny is more valuable than the lives lost to gun-crime.

        How about instead of low-IQ hamfisted moves such as taking away guns, you people look at policies that would address the root causes of crime like broken families, poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and cultural malaise? You don’t. Because you’re lazy. And THAT is why you want to get rid of guns. Because you don’t care enough about the people to invest some effort in actually solving all the related problems.