Alec Baldwin Shooting

[Angrboda]

You really love your pretzel logic don't you? No most people do not buy a weapon with attaching responsibility to it. I'd only agree people may go into it with the intent of being responsible, but if you had bothered to read my post, complacency doesn't give a shit about your intent. It only takes one spit second to fuck up, and there is no rewind button on a bullet. Again, if most people were responsible as you falsely want to believe, we would have the epidemic level no other comparative western wealthy nation peer has. None of our allies come close to our stupidity and slavish worship.

81 million Americans own 393 million firearms. In 2020, a little over 45 000 USians were killed by privately owned firearms (that number includes ALL gun deaths - murder, suicide, accident).

While 45 000 is far too many and a tragic number, if most people were as irresponsible as you claim, that number would be far, far higher. I mean, mind-wobblingly high.

Since the number of firearm deaths is such a tiny percentage of the number of people who own guns, the only reasonable conclusion that can be drawn is that the thundering majority of gun owners do - as OLB said - have a very real appreciation of the responsibility that comes with owning firearms.

Boru

That doesn't follow. Irresponsibility doesn't always lead to harm. It most often doesn't, thanks to social systems and practices which insulate people from the potential harm their irresponsibility might result in. I'm sure some gun owners are both prudent and responsible. The number of gun related incidents recorded is not itself a reliable index of how many gun owners are such. People on the whole are pretty stupid and reckless. Thanks to evolution, such flaws are not usually fatal.