• Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            11 days ago

            If you think I’m trying to say the US is better… by any measure LOL! -No. The US is a shithole.

            My point is that if you take guns out of the equation they’ll just be replaced by something else.

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              11 days ago

              My point is that your comment makes it sound like gun control would solve nothing. That patently isn’t the case.

            • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              11 days ago

              Yes, but one of those things is capable of a lot more damage in a much shorter amount of time.

              You’ll also have a hard time knifing people from a window with a wide vantage point.

              Knives are dangerous, and evil people will be evil. But should we just hand out rocket launchers on the side of the road because knives exist?

              It’s an absurd suggestion, obviously. So is “knives exist so guns are fine.”

      • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        “Daily murder” is a sneaky rhetorical maneuver, considering it’s something influenced more by raw population size, than by capita. It’s easy for there to be a “daily murder” in a country of 340,000,000 people, even when the overwhelmingly vast majority of people do not murder.

        Using “few” to trivialize/minimize the racism is no better.

        Shame on you for this disingenuity.

        • ganryuu@lemmy.ca
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          11 days ago

          Even when we go per capita the US stays a shithole, it’s not like they were trying to actively misinform people.