• PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    Wow kneejerk pseudo-science enshrined into law because one person out of 10,000,000 used a gun to kill someone. Do you think if he had used a car instead you’d see a similar response? why or why not?

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      21 hours ago

      Probably the most goddamn idiotic take I’ve fucking seen. And what makes this even funnier is your smug attitude.

      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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        20 hours ago

        Honestly just seems like a run-of-the-mill US red state take. “Muh gunz” is where it stops for them, fuck kids dying, we need more guns. If everyone carried an assault rifle the world would be at peace because there would be a good guy with a gun stopping the bad guy with a gun or something like that. They call it culture as far as I understand.

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      18 hours ago

      Ooh, ooh! Pick me! It’s because transportation is infinitely more societally useful than punching imprecise holes in things in one of the most dangerous ways accessible to most individuals! There are lots of reasons to ban or limit the use of cars in various public places, but those types of attacks are a reason to install and use bollards.

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        17 hours ago

        Agreed, so we should be building trains which are way faster, safer and environmentally friendly then cars if we actually care about saving lives.

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            17 hours ago

            Which is a completely irrelevant point here

            So if the point isn’t to save lives, what is the point?

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              17 hours ago

              The school shooting. Reading the article will help answer these types of questions. I’ll mute you for a while to give you time.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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      16 hours ago

      You’re totally right, and this is supported the data! The USA has the least restrictive gun laws of any major developed country but has similar rates of gun violence as all other developed…oh wait, never mind, the USA has by far the highest gun violence rates of any major developed nation.

      Our per capita rate of gun violence is comparable to countries like Somalia, Iraq, and Haiti.

      And also, car deaths is a huge issue too, and we should restrict car ownership and encourage mass transit and related infrastructure. Making more of our cities pedestrian-only locations protected by bollards, would also make people even safer from both accidental and intentional car deaths.

      It’s also way better for the environment and thus, people’s long term health, leading to even higher life spans and better happiness.