Teenager Ralph Yarl was shot without warning through a door after going to the wrong house to collect his brothers.

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    There are 72 million gun owners in the US.

    There were 42,000 gun deaths in 2021. A slight majority were suicides.

    Can y’all do the math on that one? Or is that too big an ask?

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          I know this was a few days ago but this argument from a leftist pro-gun point of view is so stupid to me. If you’re concerned about fascists, why do you support arming them lol?? It’s just the easily rebuked good guy with a gun bad guy with a gun argument repackaged to appeal to left wing people. Muricans going Murican

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            They’re already armed. Besides immediately triggering a civil war that push a whole bunch of “independents” to the wrong side, all it will do is disarm the sane.

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      That’s 4x higher than car related deaths per number of car owners, and cars require a license and insurance, and doing something dangerous with one can have you lose your right to use it permanently.

      Cars have the additional factor that they are practically required for living in the US, so reasonably we would be willing to accept a higher number of deaths than we would otherwise for other objects.