RE: Mass Shooting In Toronto
July 23, 2018 at 10:48 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2018 at 10:56 pm by bennyboy.)
(July 23, 2018 at 11:03 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Canada doesn't have strict gun control anyway. I don't know where that myth got started. It's got more liberal gun laws and more guns than all of Europe except maybe Switzerland and Norway. They have the same guns per capital as the US.
The hell you say. This seems highly unlikely, but I'm intrigued. Facts link?
(July 23, 2018 at 10:21 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: So much for those strict Canadian gun control laws...
I'll bet my bottom dollar that the gun used in the shooting was purchased underground and originated in. . . what country do you think I'm gonna say? If you're thinking Finland, you're way off!
(July 23, 2018 at 4:14 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(July 23, 2018 at 3:55 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I'm an agnostic when it comes to gun control, because it would seem logical that less guns=a safer society. But gun control advocate s aren't even trying to make that case...To make it you'd have to show that gun control reduced the homocide rate en large. Which using a stat like gun violence just doesn't do and people don't even attempt it, instead just finding the most blatent propghanda and going with that.
It does seem intuitive that less guns would reduce homicides, if only because guns are more effective than other weapons. Intuitions are often wrong. You would also have to consider crimes that were thwarted by the use of a gun. Regardless of whether gun laws are or are not effective, the further question is how much personal liberty Americans are willing to trade for government promises to keep us safe and secure.
This is a dumb-fuck argument, akin to "I don't wear seatbelts because I want to be thrown CLEAR." For every death that's been thwarted by an easily-obtained gun, there are probably hundreds of accidental child shooting deaths every year.
Does being a dumb fuck not bother you? I mean. . . guns are designed to put holes in people's bodies, and you think more guns are likely to reduce deaths? It worries me that a large % of the US population is stupid enough to believe that. I mean. . . is there something in the water? I don't think anyone, anywhere, outside the US thinks the stupid shit that is constantly coming out of your mouth. Like. . . really.
I can't wait until China is the strongest country in the world. They might be evil. They might make my kids learn Chinese and dress funny.
But at least they won't be dumb fucks.
