• PopcornTin@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Taking away guns does nothing for the anger people have when they want to kill another. They will just resort to other lethal tools.

    What you hear about, comes from what you’re listening to. Traditional news doesn’t cover many defensive uses because it doesn’t generate as many views as a mass shooting. “If it bleeds, it leads” has been the motto of news organizations for decades. Look to other spaces and you’ll hear stories of people defending their home, business, etc. Colion Noir on YouTube has done some really interesting interviews with people doing that in the last couple of weeks. The FBI stats had something like 3-5 million defensive gun uses a year in the US. When seconds matter, the police are minutes away

    Ban guns and who is left with them? The government and criminals. Do you trust them for all eternity?