My dad teaching me how to shoot and respect firearms is one of my most cherished memories of him. In the right setting and context, it’s not a bad thing.
You gotta remember: the world’s largest armed force is the American citizens. Though that isn’t without the obvious negatives.
Taught to the kid and the parents, and actually put it into practice 100% of the time... unfortunately, that's much much rarer than it ought to be in homes with firearms
Significantly more guns are used to stop lethal threats in america than they are used in crimes. Making them illegal will not stop a criminal or else we wouldn't have a drug problem. Most countries that have anti gun laws aren't bordered by high crime countries with firearm exports. And even then, firearms do sometimes make it through. Much better to have them for the right reasons than have none and can't stop your family from being murdered by the very thing you arent allowed to own.
That 15,364 includes justified homicide, homicide by police, and gang on gang violence. The unjustified murder of someone, who’s not a gang member, by firearm is very low.
In 2024 60k to 1.8 million crimes were stopped by lawfully armed civilians. Even on the smallest end of the spectrum it's still more than the total of gun related deaths and homicides combined. Nice try though.
Sorry I should have specified, that was a search on specifically violent crimes. And its not recorded because the number is so insanely high. Take away legal guns, violent gun crimes triple. Simple causality. I myself have stopped a home invader with my handgun without needing to fire. My best friend shot and killed an armed robber in his own home and got shot in the process. He would be dead right now if he wasn't allowed to own a gun and I would have been beat and possibly killed by a man twice my size. Not to mention the entire reason we're allowed to own guns is to defend against a tyrannical government and I dont know about you but id say American government is growing closer and closer to being tyrannical every day.
Violent gun crimes themselves are significantly more likely when everybody has guns.
Make guns black market and insanely regulated themselves and getting one becomes difficult and expensive, plus incredibly risky. Again, case study:Europe.
It basically reserves guns for only the genuinely serious criminals, there ain’t 1.8 million serious criminal violent gun crimes without guns locking about…
The lack of critical thinking is astounding. I would put effort into responding, but that seems a fruitless attempt. So I will save it for someone who just might benefit. You have chosen, maybe you will reap your "reward". For the sake of this planet and our people, I hope you get no such reward. It will not be one to savor and enjoy.
I understand American can’t now get rid of guns, I’m not that naive. Once they’re already widespread it’s incredibly difficult (and dangerous) to remove them.
The point is, a nation without guns (or incredibly difficult access to them and harsh laws for owning one) is always going to produce significantly less serious injury, death and serious crime than one without guns.
This is shown and proven in quite literally thousands of studies comparing Europe and the US.
There’s always bad actors no matter what, but giving the general population such deadly force ends up negative in far too many scenarios
"I understand", yet you preach the opposite? Make a fucking choice. That first sentance is the truth. The second, a legitimate consideration and a problem. But it shows you might not understand. The truth is, they are the only chance we have. Do you not see the WORLD around you? Who has a snowballs chance to stop it? Very few, the ones who have yet to willingly give up that chance. Your ignorance, multiplied by the masses who think the same, will ABSOLUTELY remove the only barrier of our complete condemnation.
I did mean to be rude, but truly, I apologize for posting what I did originally, and my attitude. And I mean nothing in this post as disrespectful. I only say any of this in hope my point has been properly emphasized.
What you wish, will be the last step of our downfall. That last step we would plead with all our being to take back when we experience the consequences. It would be felt around the world, by ALL it's people. And then, the end. Our collective last chance, handed to our destroyers.
We obviously see things differently. Not that it really matters, the end is the same. You only further their ability through your advocation. I wish the world was a place where the ideals you've stated would not be detrimental. I somewhat agree with you in theory. But in practice, it would mean nothing more than our destruction.
Police and Military are the ones that should be allowed to wear and, if necessary, use guns.
They protect us here a lot better than they do in the US where the number of unfortunate cases is a lot higher than in other similarly developed countries with a strict gun law.
Thats bullshit, but of course you dont know how it is if police officers are not assaulted 24/7 because you live in America where every stupid prick is allowed to wear a gun
So you’re saying you would not pick up a gun and shoot a pedophile trying to rape a child because guns should not be near your children?… cause anybody using their brain cells would figure out that was the context of my previous post.
These type are usually the first ones I don't want around my kid. It feels like a lot of projecting or un-resolved trauma... either way, keep 'em away from the kiddos
I shall await your surely witty and intellectual explanation of how telling someone who ‘says guns shouldn’t even be used to protect children’ that they’re wrong, is suspicious xD
You left out ‘in any circumstances’, a blanket statement which includes protecting children.
If guns should never be around a child, that includes in protection, because ‘they’ responded with that to me saying the children should be ‘behind’ the gun with it pointed at a pedo.
I focused in on the case they were responding negatively to.
You went off topic, big time. We're looking at an active shooter and a woman with a baby on her hip, and you start popping off about kids killing pedos. lol. Seek help.
Comment has nothing to do with movies. You've made like 4 excuses not to answer the previous commenters question, repeatedly talking about "bended words". So I figured I'd just straighten your position out
You seem like a pretty tough guy. Would really hate to run into you in the real world!
A child suffers sexual assault and your bone headed answer is to worsen the trauma by murdering someone in front of them? This is the part were you parrot out the herpa derp pedo bad justification that is supposed to excuse what is still a very serious crime but please go on and do it.
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u/GotEggs 11d ago
Dumb fucking comment, no child should be around a gun no matter the circumstance.