• bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
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    1 year ago

    Did you see that video of the lady open carrying in Houston who started shooting at the car that cut her off? Hilarious. Sorry, you were saying?

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      1 year ago

      Did you see the article of the Saskatchewan mass stabbing that had something like 28 casualties? Anecdotes are not indicative of trends.

      In a country of 300M you will have outliers. But there are hundreds if not thousands of carriers not hurting a fly for every article like this. Texas alone has 1.7M licensed carriers. So that ratio is actually probably in the hundreds of thousands to 1.

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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.

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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
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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.

            • Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.social
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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.

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                1 year ago

                The data is plain and irrefutable. What use is open or concealed carry other than the intent to kill a threat. Who is the terrified one that needs either?