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Progressive Politics, Gun Control, Single Payer Healthcare and Free Abortions for All!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the world is a dangerous place

That's by design. The intentionality of that design varies person by person who's in charge. But the design of our society itself is most often to blame.

The design ought to be changed to one in which there is no danger.

However just like with every group, there are many sensible people who are gun owners

And if you are that's great for you. But the reality is that the more a population owns guns, and the more unrestricted, the more untrained, the more deaths there are. Avoidable deaths.

And we should avoid them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

See I agree with you that there need to be more restrictions on guns, where I disagree is the belief that the existence of guns in and of itself is a problem and that people who carry guns for the Judgment self-defense purposes are automatically suspect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

where I disagree is the belief that the existence of guns in and of itself is a problem and that people who carry guns for the Judgment self-defense purposes are automatically suspect.

Suspect is not the word I would use.

But regardless, guns objectively are dangerous, and therefore often a problem. Simply owning a gun increases the chance that you will kill yourself or somebody else.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-ownership-associated-with-much-higher-suicide-risk.html

https://apnews.com/article/science-health-homicide-d11c8f4ac07888b19309c3e1ff2ae3c9