• lazynooblet@lazysoci.al
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    1 year ago

    US has a gun problem. It isn’t really news. Unfortunately guns are ingrained into US culture and people will defend their right for guns against all common sense.

    • Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      Try comparing countries by homicide categorically.

      As it is, you’re showing you don’t care at all about homicide - only that the specific implement is a firearm.

      • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al
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        1 year ago

        So US is what, in the top 20? If you filter for developed countries, US is firmly #1. There is certainly room for improvement. Having easy access to devices designed to kill people is just madness to me.

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          1 year ago

          Why don’t you check out the data and directly refer to that early than making more bad guesses?

          The original intent of a thing is entirely irrelevant to what a thing is used for. The sheer number of things in use in day-to-day life in ways far beyond original intent is mind-boggling. And then there’s the flip-side, the logical extension of such an absurd focus precludes assigning actual blame for use of a thing in the way it was designed.

          I’m not sure how you define easy, but requiring a background check is more than sufficient barrier for me. Then again, I’m not pants-shittingly terrified of inanimate objects.