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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 8 years ago

Every gun-controlled Western nation has way lower homicide rates than the US, but the Cons still push pro gun?

Why don't we recognize the NRA for the petty, ignorant little thugs that they are? What has to happen to convince us that the status quo is absolute madness? Triple digit child murder? Quadruple digit? Yeah, yeah, I'm sure the same sick individual could have killed 26 with a knife. Or maybe they would have found four guns anyhow. (Probably not you delusional psychopaths) But why make it easy for them?!!! Are 20 young children a small price to pay for the freedom to shoot a pistol? Why don't you HONESTLY ask yourself that rather than passing it off as political maneuvering by your opponents? Whores.

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  • 8 years ago
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    Sometimes homicide rates and gun-related murder rates are not the same things. just putting that out there. There are many cases where gun-related murders increased more than 10% in states/cities where stricter laws and or bans were passed.

    and knife, maybe not..but a bomb or fire could have easily killed the same amount if not more.

    The US does have gun control. Even a complete ban wouldn't eliminate the chance for someone to have a gun. And what is the government supposed to do? Besides making stricter laws the only other thing they could do is collect every single gun. What stricter gun control laws should there be then other than those already in place?

  • kwal
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    Nice throwing in whores there, that poisoning the well fallacy discredits your entire argument already. However looking at the vast differences in population of the US compared to other Western countries, along with the fact that were are vastly more ethnically diverse accounts for a large majority of those homicides.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    You could have taken out the whole school with a bomb made from fertilizer. It was a tragedy but to make this world perfectly safe you would have to ban a lot more then guns. I'm not ready to give up my rights a live under complete control.

  • Darren
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Well put on every point. Unfortunately, I think nothing will happen. We will eventually have another mass shooting and the NRA will continue to argue that the exorbitant amount of guns in our country have nothing to do with the problem of gun violence.

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  • 8 years ago

    Cost of doing business

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    not true:

    "The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S."

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/Th...

    ALSO- "for Chicago (a city with VERY strict gun control) teens as fatal shootings in city outnumber US troops killed in Afghanistan

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161690/Ch...

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I like to be able to defend myself if I need to. I haven't shot anybody. Classic case of one or two ruining it for the many.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    I have still yet to hear ONE liberal explain how they will keep the CRIMINALS from using their guns once the law abiding populace has been disarmed.

    Annnnd . . . Still none.

  • 8 years ago

    Oh yeah, Mexico has no gun problems! Dumbass.

  • Tomoki
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    That's "Murrca for ya.

    Land of FREEDOM!

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