mindstalk | (Reply)

Are guns like oxygen? For a lot of the US, yes, in being ubiquitous, considered normal, and mostly not killing people. Removing oxygen to prevent fires is usually overkill, and they would say removing guns is too.

Except that not only are murder rates far lower in nations with strict gun control, but from Australia's example, we know of an absolute fact that strict gun control drastically reduces the numbers of mass shootings. Of course, there's also the fact that removing oxygen tends to have negative consequences, and other than annoying people, removing guns simply does not

From the stats we have, they are largely useless as personal protection, and other than hunting weapons (I have no objection to the sale of pump action shotguns and bolt action rifles), absolutely nothing else is lost on any sort of practical level, and hurt feelings seem vastly less important than dead people.