Quote (fender @ Feb 16 2021 12:31am)
yikes. if gun nuts only had the slightest clue how cringe their beloved "lel, they used the wrong term for a particular firearm. they clearly don't know what they are talking about at all, and thus can't possibly come up with legislation to protect innocent lives. if you don't spend your time and money buying walmart tacticool gear, gun magazines, and cosplaying special ops, you're not worthy of writing gun legislation." line of argument is, they would stop making it. that's like insisting only alcoholics should be allowed to write drinking laws, or only race car drivers and mechanics should craft traffic laws...
it's really just an intellectually lazy way of refusing to address the issues caused by america's gun obsession, to portray the ones trying to solve them as entirely clueless, and thus unable to.
why does the PRO GUN community not come up with some actual solutions for issues like mass shootings, firearm homicide, or gun suicide for example? shouldn't it be in their interest to solve them in order to protect their simplistic interpretation of the second amendment? all they do is reject everything that is proposed, reject everyone trying to solve those issues as 'clueless', and blame other factors (that strangely do NOT lead to the same problems in all of your peer countries), while actively preventing research on the issue. do you genuinely not realise how that looks, how obvious their real motives are?
If only we were talking about minor linguistic mistakes. If you don't understand what guns are primarily used in crimes, and which are not, or you've cobbled together a list of "bad" guns based on the latest action flick, you are not a serious participant in the debate.
Suicide rates in the United States are pretty comparable to other developed states, and indeed lower than many countries with far more stringent gun control and far lower rates of violent crime. When comparing the United States against Canada, for instance, the suicide rate is relatively equivalent even though firearm suicides are far lower in the north.
Americans are not going to give up constitutional rights because of a few isolated mass shootings. This is the sort of logic that led the Germans to give the state the power to kill 6 million Jews. Fool me once, etc.