Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.
BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 5 days agoThere is nothing interesting about that. In my country it’s hard to get legal carrying license or licence to have a gun. I have one because I’m a lawyer. However criminals don’t care about such legitimacy issues do they? Anyone who is talking about easy access to guns somehow doesn’t understand or ignorant about the fact that criminals can get those guns easier than anyone going through the legitimate ways. It’s not hard to smuggle small firearms. Anywhere in the world you can find an illegal/black market gun easily.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Lol no. This is absolute horseshit, and if you were actually a lawyer, I would expect you to know that.
Gun control does work. Literally all stats and research bears that out, in addition to this thing called travelling to countries with gun control.
If youre an actual human lawyer, travel more. But I suspect you’re not.
BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 4 days ago
If you think that’s where the guns are coming from you’re very naive and ignorant of how the black market works… For example: Austria where Glocks are made, has one of the most strict gun laws yet there are so much black market Glocks in Europe it’s like a toy. Overall there are very strict laws in Europe yet it’s very easy to find guns. Do you think people are buying them from US and countries like that and bring them to Europe to sell in the black market?
Here is the EU report about it you can read from page 61. If you don’t believe me.
https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/EU-SOCTA-2025.pdf
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Maybe reconsider throwing around words like “naiive” when your source is a Europol briefing document covering various threats at a high level with no stats or numbers.
Especially since if you actually dig into it, you’d find that Europe’s illegal gun trade comes partially from old military and police weapons from the Balkans / collapse of the Soviet Union, partially from theft of legal firearms, partially from weapons that are imported (legally and illegally) from the US and Turkey, and minorly from weapons smuggled in from other war zones / 3d printed guns.
The fact is that gun control works. Dislike that all you want but it doesn’t change the stats or reality you the world.