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I am aware this is satire. But this line is a direct quote from so many people, with a completely straight dace
“But they could use a knife or a bat or a car!”
Without seeing the fact that having such free access to “tools” designed for the sole purpose of killing many people in as little time as possible.
Anyone against gun control is completely smooth brained. Anyone who complains about gun control, that the government shouldn’t control and regulate access, that they need multiple guns for “self defence” should not be allowed access to any gun.
Another common one is
except that never happens in any other developed nation.
Sure. From other people with guns. And not a single shooting has been ~stopped~ prevented by “good guy with gun™️”.
/rant
Sad watching people like you type out a bunch of nonsense as though it's true.
I guess that's why people like you are so 'up in arms' about gun control; you're living in a fantasy world where you think that criminals don't have guns in other developed nations.
It's not a fantasy, it's observed reality. There are almost no mass shootings anywhere outside the US. The few that did happen were from terrorists : people on a mission and part of an organisation, not some lone dude able to buy a rifle at the closest 7-11. At this point, if you don't want gun control, you just don't want to save your peers from being murdered. As far as I'm concerned you're an accomplice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mass_shootings_by_country
Educate yourself.
Lol, this is what I mean by 'getting up in arms' while living in a fantasy world. I think you might be spending too much time on these forums, and it's distorting your view of reality. You can't realize it though because it makes you fit in with those around you.
Oh well. Gonna block you now. You don't seem like the kind of rational person who has information that's worth taking seriously.
You want to try reading that ? most other countries have three or four occurrences total. US has... 4011 in the last decade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
You're the one whose beliefs are blinding them my friend.
Lol you know it's bad when you start drilling down into the subcategories. You open up the 2020s for the UK and it's 3 small articles. You open up the 2020s for the US and it's like, "Alright you want all the shootings from 2020, 2021, 2022, or 2023? Cause this is gonna take a while."