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"No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"
There's no way to prevent this without turning into Canada or the UK or Australia.
What a horror, having fewer people die.
Not to mention that those countries didn't even solve anything by getting rid of guns since their homicide rates had no notable change.
Yeah, it's unfortunate nobody has found a way to prevent you from talking yet
How very free speech of you.
Eli, easy there.
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Unlike you I don't want people to get shot.
Not only that, but all evidence clearly demonstrates that reducing guns does not reduce homicide rates, whatsoever. So guns aren't even increasing your risk
Not even close to accurate.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-ownership-associated-with-much-higher-suicide-risk.html
https://www.vox.com/2015/10/1/18000520/gun-risk-death
https://phys.org/news/2022-05-gun-ownership-homicide-stronger.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-guns-in-home-increase-suicide-homicide-risk/
https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/03/handgun-ownership-vastly-increases-ones-suicide-risk-large-study-confirms/
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199310073291506
And it's pretty obvious. A tool meant to kill being around makes it easier to kill. If it's easier to kill, more death will happen.
Next they should research if water is wet, I'm sure they'll come to a similarly shocking conclusion.
I don't need your worthless disproven spam
So you have no argument. You just like living in a world where people get shot all the time, got it.
This isn't a good argument. Criminals get guns through lawful processes. They buy guns directly from gun shops, or they buy them at gun shows, or they buy them from private sellers, all of which are legal methods of buying guns. There is of course a black market for guns, but if you're too stupid to acquire a gun legally, you're probably going to fall for the obvious FBI sting operation that calls itself Black Market Firearms dot com. I'm not linking it here, in the off chance that it really is an online retailler of explicitly illegal firearms and ammunition.
The point is, most gun control legislation is aimed at the methods criminals use to obtain guns. Restrictions on straw purchases, requirements for background checks at gun shows and for private sales, requirements to report lost or stolen guns, these are all reasonable restrictions that don't take guns away from lawful owners.
I don't know if we're on the same website. The first result from my search for "black market firearms" gave me a website that says "we sell illegal firearms and ship them to you." So, I'm guessing when you give them money and an address, they keep the money and give the address to the ATF.
If I were the FBI, I'd make it look legit, too.
Literally the first line at the top of thr website.
Ok. I was deliberately avoiding putting the actual link to an illegal black market firearm website because that probably violates some sort of rule. So I don't blame you for going to the wrong website.
It's crazy how the criminals in Europe tend not to use guns anywhere near as much as the U.S.
You dumb fucks will do and say anything to avoid addressing the gun issue.
Maybe don't ignore the fact that there are way more homicides in the U.S. than in Europe next time. And for those of us with half a brain, it isn't hard to recognize that guns are in large part responsible for that.