Gun ownership making you safer is a myth. You can parse gun violence into mental health events, violent crime, and accidents, but none of those categories are made better by owning a gun.
When you are around guns, things get more violent, not less.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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Sure, it would be nice if nobody had guns. But it really sucks when the Nazis and the cops have guns, and nobody else does.
Couldn't agree more. I've been saying for years that ceding all the guns to one side of the political discussion was a recipe for disaster. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
In England the cops don't regularly carry guns, and no, there are not mass stabbings all the time instead.
Precisely. I may not be safe with a gun, but why should I let the bad people in the world be the only one who is armed?
How terrifying and how infuriating. They need to stop saying these groups have ties to white supremacists and just outright call them what they are. White Supremacist terrorists. Not that hard to say.
I live here in SD. This has been quite the topic locally. It’s also extremely depressing that San Diego County Gun Owners has been depressingly silent over it.