Comment on YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead

• GiddyGap@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Man, if your country has you living in such fear that you feel the need to be armed at all times, then that country is a failed society.

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• ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, let’s not regulate guns at all, that’s a swell idea.

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  • deranger@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let’s make them illegal, like drugs, because that works great.

    The demand for guns in the US is high; if you don’t think this would become a lucrative black market you’re foolish.

    The solution is more involved than just “regulate X”. Something is deeply fucked that isn’t going to be simply solved with a law, and could make things worse despite great intentions, just like prohibition did.

    If the demand isn’t addressed, the problem will still exist. Same as prostitution and drugs.

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    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let’s make them illegal, like drugs, because that works great.

      So what’s the black market for hand grenades and land mines like?

      Practically non-existent because it turns out controlling weapon manufacturing is much easier than controlling drug manufacturing and you can properly scrutinise people’s access to them without a death cult getting outraged.

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• iegod@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes much better to arm that populace and have it be a double failure. Your failed society comparison would be an improvement for the US.

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• SCB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There will always be murders. Humans are irrational creatures. Banning firearms makes murder attempts less likely to succeed, and mass murders significantly harder to plan, execute, and achieve actual mortality with.

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• anlumo@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s kinda a given, but way harder to fix than introducing weapons control.

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• NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, I’m sure there are lots of other socioeconomic reasons, but it feels like you can solve this big one a lot quicker and easier than trying to solve all the abstract issues that covers.

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