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Neh. The stupid people are getting way too many of them and will use tragedies to justify owning them.
How many more mass shootings need to happen before it’s finally too much? And a good guy with a gun is not the answer. The Uvalde police had guns but that didn’t change anything.
Cops are not “good guys”. They have a duty to protect property, not life.
Plus they’re the only job where they can refuse to hire you for being too smart.
That’s irrelevant. If firearms were outlawed tomorrow it wouldn’t stop mass shootings.
While it wouldn’t stop them entirely, saying it’s irrelevant is completely wrong. There’s enough data out there from countries not buried in gun violence to prove there would be a difference.
Sure, it might have made an impact in other countries, but there are over 300 million guns in the US. That’s almost 1 gun per living human in the country. In the event of a firearms ban those guns don’t just go away, they go underground. The black market for firearms in an America where guns are outlawed would be massive and easily accessible, so I think the mass shooting angle of this argument is actually pretty irrelevant.