Eraser wrote:Indeed. It's guns and responsibility. Since Americans lack the latter, they cannot be trusted with the former. But we went over this discussion before.
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I'm just curious, Nightshade. What is your explanation for the obvious gun violence problem the US has? Why do assault rifles appear to be a problem in the US, but not in Switzerland? Oh wait, you're in the "America has no gun problem" crowd, no?
Hmm, so I guess the tens of millions of legal gun owners in the US that DON'T kill people every day aren't responsible? No, see, SOME Americans aren't responsible enough to own or have access to guns. Taking away the rights of the majority due to failures of a very small number of idiots/crazies is, uh, what am I trying to say here, um, oh yeah FUCKING STUPID.
I have no new arguments here, nothing has changed. The explanation I have for the rate of gun violence in the US is that people want to kill each other. They use guns to do it. If we could suddenly remove all guns from the planet, guess what would happen? People would still be killing each other, they would just find other ways to do it. Why is that so hard for people to get? Gun crime is the SYMPTOM, not the PROBLEM. America doesn't have a "gun problem", America has socio-economic, educational, and parenting problems. America has shitty mental healthcare system problems. This leads a small number of individuals to kill people with firearms. Fix the aforementioned problems and we'll just be a fatter, slightly dumber version of Switzerland.
