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It just means that Americans are more violent AND have guns to help them kill more efficiently.
If guns disappeared overnight, there wouldn't suddenly be an additional 45,000/year knife deaths to make up the difference.  This has proved by pretty much every study on gun regulations.
Been in Japan 10 years never even seen or heard a gun outside of the internet/movies/tv. Can't have anything to do with their laws though. >

Wasn’t the prime minister recently assassinated by one? >

The killer made the gun himself. >

Exactly I get extremely frustrated when a single shooting is used as an example their laws do not work. You are never going to totally get rid of gun violence there is always going to be a crafty guy that can build one or at worse case a crossbow in his garage or some shit. You can make it to where it happens way less tho which is what they did. Japan has less shootings in a year then the US has in a single mass shooting. >

It is frustrating. An argument I've heard a thousand times is "if someone wants to kill somebody they'll just find another way, it's not the guns". Ok, let's see how many people blow themselves up making homemade bombs. Let's see how many mass stabbings occur in the absence of guns.
It seems to me that most pro-gun arguments amount to "nothing can be done, nothing will work, so let's not even try". >


An argument I've heard a thousand times is "if someone wants to kill somebody they'll just find another way, it's not the guns".

And then they always point to the UK as an example and claim that people there just use knives instead of guns.  In reality, the US has 8x the rate of stabbing deaths, PLUS all of the gun deaths. >

So its not the guns