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Originally Posted by knox
well, I believe preventing deaths by limiting access to guns is pretty doable.
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Limiting being the operative word. There's plenty of cultures - Sweden, Canada - where guns are very common; their use and distribution is part of a very different culture. As a for instance on greater prohibitions:
this (as analogy) and
this (in relation to the UK's gun laws). I wouldn't want to stop everyone owning guns. It's a liberty I think we can afford. I don't disagree with the basic point that a lot of people - maybe a majority -
can be trusted with guns; the point is that a culture with astronomical gun-related fatality figures (such as America) simply cannot continue as it is. I'm sure suchfriends... (and Bradders?) have seen first-hand what happens in the nastier bits of LA. America accepts to its bosom hundreds of bits of legislation that inhibit their personal freedoms; adding guns to that list is by no means a huge ask.