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In reply to the discussion: You gave me a D?? BANG! [View all]mythology
(9,527 posts)Yes obviously in theory somebody could drive a truck down a crowded sidewalk as in Nice, or somebody could fill a moving truck with fertilizer and make a bomb like in Oklahoma City.
But for the most part they don't. They use guns. Guns are easy to get, easy to use, easy to conceal. They are a coward's tool.
But go ahead, stick your head in the sand and pretend that access to guns aren't the problem. Go ahead and ignore that more domestic violence homicides have been committed with a gun than any other weapon. Go ahead and ignore that suicides attempted with a gun are vastly more likely to kill than other methods. Those of us who aren't comfortable with ignoring those needless deaths have lives to save. But maybe there is some number at which point you will say it's enough. Apparently it's higher than the 33,169 who died in 2013. Maybe it will be if somebody close to you dies due to a gun. Of course, they are more likely to die from a gun you own than from a stranger with a gun.
Oh and for the record, statistically speaking, while firearm ownership rate has a positive correlation to death via firearm, it has no correlation with the non-firearm homicide rate, making the argument that somebody would just switch to another weapon, frankly stupid. I'm sorry if you don't like evidence, but well, tough.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/01/good_guy_with_a_gun_myth_guns_increase_the_risk_of_homicide_accidents_suicide.html
Guns need to go away. We've proven as a species we can't own them responsibly.