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You want fewer shooting? We need single payer healthcare allowing people to get the mental health treatment they need. We need minimum wage federally raised to a level providing minimum basic needs such as food and shelter security. These are things dems have campaigned on for my entire lifetime. These are things that have been within their power to do at times throughout my life and nothing came to fruition. I'm done watching rights being stripped away. I'm done watching the dems trying to disarm themselves while the right grows more and more violent. Get your fucking priorities straight.
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 >

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. >

but there would be a significant uptick in knife crimes, and the country would lose some freedoms.  The question is whether or not a certain thing is worth the price. >


but there would be a significant uptick in knife crimes

Evidence from around the world doesn't support that.
That is a good question.  How many dead children is it worth for someone with a history of domestic violence to buy a gun without a waiting period and hundreds of rounds of ammunition?
My answer is zero, personally. >

This also my take. While it would make sense to have more restrictive gun laws, the second amendment is so deeply rooted in our culture I don’t see it going anywhere anytime soon. However, until we make some huge changes in our wealth inequality and social support systems we will continue to see people misuse guns. >

Unfortunately, there seem to be far too many people for whom the 2nd Amendment is the most, or in some cases only, important provision of the Constitution.