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2 hours ago, BillStime said:

Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

 

 

This will stop criminals how? You know they don't follow the rules or give a crap about the law.

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9 minutes ago, Gregg said:

 

This will stop criminals how? You know they don't follow the rules or give a crap about the law.

Stiff penalties for those carrying stolen guns, and those who are careless with securing their weapons.  The only problem with this is that we incarcerate tons of people already, and I'm not sure it's making a difference.  Some kind of culture change may be necessary.  How to accomplish that is anyone's guess.  

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2 hours ago, Orlando Tim said:

Right now Sydney is happy a good guy with a gun was able to stop the dude with a knife. Anyone who focuses on the tool and not the person is too dumb for this conversation.

If this happened in a mall in Texas is there 6 victims? Not likely

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On 4/13/2024 at 1:31 PM, KDIGGZ said:

If this happened in a mall in Texas is there 6 victims? Not likely


Agreed. It’d be a hell of a lot more. 

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5 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:


Agreed. It’d be a hell of a lot more. 

There would be 1 and he would be going to the morgue and not prison. But they would never release the manifesto about how he's a he-she who identifies as a unicorn and it's all Trump's fault

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11 hours ago, KDIGGZ said:

There would be 1 and he would be going to the morgue and not prison. But they would never release the manifesto about how he's a he-she who identifies as a unicorn and it's all Trump's fault

 

Keeping in mind that the reason the Australian stabbing made international news is because of how rare mass killings are there, here's just some examples of how it goes when someone tries a mass killing in Texas:

 

Also, keep in mind that even in a country with so many guns:

 

So yeah, if someone wanted to kill a bunch of people in Texas, they'd just get a gun and mow people down.

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1 minute ago, ChiGoose said:

They could also get a car and run people over or do a suicide bombing. What's your point? That you can use a gun to kill a lot of people? I would argue that there are much easier ways. So let's ban cars right? Makes a lot of sense. There used to not be a lot of mass casualty events in this country as well. But meanwhile there was always guns. So what changed?

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1 minute ago, ChiGoose said:

So you volunteering to go door to door in gangland?  

 

Forget the state.  That's macro, go micro to see the patterns.  Ie, counties with gun violence at the highest levels, don't allow legal ownership or make it almost impossible.

 

go by county or district if you really give a rats about the issue.

 

but you guys will spend all day parroting outliers and meta data.  

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5 minutes ago, KDIGGZ said:

They could also get a car and run people over or do a suicide bombing. What's your point? That you can use a gun to kill a lot of people? I would argue that there are much easier ways. So let's ban cars right? Makes a lot of sense. There used to not be a lot of mass casualty events in this country as well. But meanwhile there was always guns. So what changed?

 

I don't think there's a single reason why firearm deaths are increasing. It's probably a confluence of multiple factors. 

 

However, we do know ways to reduce them:

 

5 minutes ago, Tommy Callahan said:

So you volunteering to go door to door in gangland?  

 

Forget the state.  That's macro, go micro to see the patterns.  Ie, counties with gun violence at the highest levels, don't allow legal ownership or make it almost impossible.

 

go by county or district if you really give a rats about the issue.

 

but you guys will spend all day parroting outliers and meta data.  

 

If you want to go micro, you might learn that rural countries have a 37% higher rate of firearm deaths than most urban counties.

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43 minutes ago, ChiGoose said:

I would be for a lot of common sense laws. The reason others are not is a distrust in the government where if you give an inch they take a mile. Look at race or gay rights issues. When I was a kid it was let's make it so everyone is equal. Now it's all about how we aren't equal so they need equity. If we give in to tough gun laws then next will be gun confiscations. I wish we could all get along and do the right things but there is big divide between pro and anti gun groups. When the president says he's going to take your guns then no wonder people have dug their heels in

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