Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US?
snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks agoYeah, guns are the tools and not the root cause. Significant income disparity, racism, social pressures, and a ton of other triggers cause murders and suicides and while guns enable them there still needs to be something that causes someone to use the guns in that way.
Violent crime that doesn’t involve guns in the US is significantly higher than other western countries.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Same with hard drugs, and the associated crime… they’re a symptom, not the root cause. Hard drugs are used to escape reality. If there’s fewer reasons to escape, usage drops dramatically.