Originally posted by i_am_a_champ
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Gun deaths are way down. The sole increasing variable is media coverage of "mass shootings" which do not represent even 1% of the overall homicide rate and are fueled by that same excessive media coverage.
You are admitting that you do not care about loss of life or that American gun ownership policy has been a rousing success, that the FBI has determined multiple times that it saves more lives than it takes, that our gun homicide rate is down by half compared to the 1990s in the wake of loosening restrictions on so-called "assault rifles", that the majority of total national homicides are concentrated in a handful of cities and that suburban/rural America is safer than the ****hole you dwell in.
You have reiterated that loss of life does not matter to you. Only the "troubling images on TV" specific to mass shootings matter to you. Shouldn't your argument be immediately dismissed based on its obscenity?
Yes or no? Should an argument prioritizing shocking imagery and publicity stunts over measurable loss of life be dismissed or not?
You would not have identical mass shooting rates with the same gun laws. Europe as a region has the second-loosest gun ownership laws after the US but is not a mass shooting hub. Homicide rates are tightly correlated to demography and economy. Globally, homicide is loosely inversely related to private gun ownership (countries with more guns typically have dramatically lower shooting deaths. Google up a map of private gun ownership vs a world homicide map and overlay them).
Besides all that I think it's strange that you will be extinct a generation from now, would face criminal prosecution if I tricked you into posting the wrong piechart on Facebook, and you're trying to lobby for the world's sole remaining beacon of hope to become more like the futureless death march you're trapped in by relieving one of the key checks/balances features that preserved their dignity while you're doomed to live like an animal who gets zapped and caged for "thought crimes". Gee wiz sign me up!
Now get the **** out of my thread. I'm done with you.
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