Questions on gun-control/rights

[EdwardBernays]

30. Nonsense

I am open to a combination of things. But I don't believe that any societal change on its own will stop the decades long gun violence epidemic or even lower the numbers meaningfully in any sort of reasonable time frame.

As for Japan, that's an utter red herring. In the suicide forest near mt fuji about 25% of attempts are successful. If they all had used guns the numbers would be MUCH higher. Trying to claim that you can add endless guns to a nation with a high suicide rate without raising the suicide rate is nonsensical and obviously so.

The 50% reduction is from the spike in the 90s we're still at higher levels than in the 1950s. In other words after 60 years we haven't lowered gun violence below where we started. And we are losing 30k people a year... Trying to claim that as a victory underscores how little you actually care about your fellow citizens.

Finally - Europe has basically no guns relative to America. Only criminals have handguns. And guess what? We aren't all being murdered. In fact our murder rate is much lower and our gun violence rate is MUCH lower. How can that be if we need guns for self-defense from the criminals with guns?