Comment on A French small business owner has his video game store looted

• jfrnz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s not selfish, just idiotic. There’s no minimum violence bar we need to hit, it’s okay to be against both.

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  • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    no shit but you can’t have both guns and no guns

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    • jfrnz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah yes, we either get riots or school shootings, no other options.

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      • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        ? now you’ve wondered into another claim i never made

        enjoy the strawman by yourself

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• gastroglizzy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  maybe address the issues that caused the original problem

  I don’t want to see another gun ban because I know they don’t work. I’d rather see the root causes of violence addressed. If you address poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and mental illness with robust social programs and treat them as the systemic public health issues that they are, bans are unnecessary because crime will be obsolete.

  Banning guns with a law, enforced by police to whom the law does not apply, won’t stop gun violence; it will further entrench the police state.

  If simply having guns lead to gun violence, then other countries with higher rates of gun ownership than the US would have the same problems with gun violence.

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  • Therefore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’d love to know what countries you think have higher rate of gun ownership than the states. Maybe look that one up?

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    • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      the only ones close have much stricter access laws

      these dudes be making up shit to justify muricas bullshit

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