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minus-squareGiddyGaplinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down9·4 months agoMaybe look a little outside the US? Other Western countries are far, far safer and have much less gun violence with less weapons in circulation. The difference is the easy access to weapons.
minus-squareCancerMancer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoCanada and Sweden still have a lot of guns but considerably lower rates of violence in general, and gun violence in particular.
minus-squareGiddyGaplinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agoAnd way, way lower gun ownership rates compared to the US. Plus very strict rules for owning a weapon, such as storage.
minus-squareCancerMancer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoThis is a strange angle because the UK does not have notably higher levels of knife ownership but has a disproportionately high level of stabbings. I think the idea that the cause of gun violence is guns is just flawed. People need a reason to commit violence, they don’t just do it for fun.
Maybe look a little outside the US? Other Western countries are far, far safer and have much less gun violence with less weapons in circulation. The difference is the easy access to weapons.
Canada and Sweden still have a lot of guns but considerably lower rates of violence in general, and gun violence in particular.
And way, way lower gun ownership rates compared to the US. Plus very strict rules for owning a weapon, such as storage.
This is a strange angle because the UK does not have notably higher levels of knife ownership but has a disproportionately high level of stabbings.
I think the idea that the cause of gun violence is guns is just flawed. People need a reason to commit violence, they don’t just do it for fun.