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In 2015 in the United States, there were 13,338 (thirteen
thousand three hundred and thirty eight) firearm-related deaths,
not including suicides or accidentals – they were pre-meditated
murders.
Everyone says, “Well if you ban guns or make them harder to get,
criminals will be the only ones who have them!” This is, however,
hypothetical. It’s based on fear, that the only thing preventing
criminals from tearing into people’s homes is the chance that they
might be standing in the doorway with an assault rifle, ready to
protect their family. It can’t be based on any real world statistics
because, as we’ve been shown, Australia and Japan have low gun
murder rates.
A lot of Americans always mention, “Look what happened in
Germany in the 30s and 40s, as well as the Soviet Union, and in
Cambodia, where they banned citizens from having guns! You
know what happened? Genocide happened!”
But then when you point out how gun control works in other
countries, they’re very quick to point out, “Yeah, but we’re not the
same as them!” So, you’re not like other countries, but you are like
Nazi Germany?
They think the worst will happen, but the worst is already here,
in the form of every person in the country having such easy access
to guns, that that’s how they decide to solve their perceived
problems.
Regardless of which side of the argument you land on, you have
to agree that something has to be done. It doesn’t matter if you
don’t believe it has anything to do with guns, even though that’s
almost always the weapon of choice in the US, you do realise
something
has to be done.
So let them try
something
. Even if it means getting a gun is as
difficult as being allowed to drive a car. It doesn’t work? Well, then
the Americans get to say ‘I told you so’ while they enjoy the “well-
regulated” part of the constitutional right to bear arms. It’ll give
them something to do during the waiting period.
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