Questions on gun-control/rights

[EdwardBernays]

9. We know that's not the case

Because we can look at Western countries without guns and see that they have much lower murder rates - even though many of them don't do endlessly more to address societal problems.

And of course Europe has much more democracy and social justice and universal education and welfare - as a rule - without guns. It's a fallacy to equate freedom and weaponry. Protecting society isn't a party political value, it's a the most basic thing a society must do. Right now American society fails 30k people a year. Allowing those people to die to protect the right to weaponry isn't a value worth fighting for. It's certainly not worth losing 30k people a year - for decades and decades.