Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.

• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You don’t accidentally shoot anyone either, it’s negligence.

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  • shplane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Let’s not get tied up in semantics but the idea that you can’t “accidentally” shoot someone is nonsense. Whether you call it negligence or not, if it’s not on purpose, then it’s an accident.

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Accident isn’t a harsh enough word.

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    • breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They subscribe to the NRA falsehood about “guns don’t kill people etc.”. Such people are usually lost causes.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In the US a gun is more likely to kill the owner or their family than anyone else.

    I’m fairly sure ethe vast majority of those are accidental.

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well you’d be wrong, overwhelmingly the majority of those are suicides, followed by intentional homicides, and lastly negligence (you can try and remove the negligent party’s guilt by calling them accidents all you want, but the “accident” occurs through blatant negligence every time.)

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      • breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You: Well you are wrong, because if you don’t count these gun deaths, then there are almost no gun deaths.

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• lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a lot faster to do it with a car

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• chonkyninja@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Speak for yourself.

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