Comment on Federal judge again strikes down California law banning gun magazines of more than 10 rounds
dartanjinn@lemm.ee 11 months agoOf that 50,000, how many were suicide? Should we register rope? How about table saws? Saw that one while I was doing biotrauma cleanup for a certain company with yellow trucks.
I’ll go ahead and tell you - in 2021 54% we’re suicides. (pewresearch.org/…/what-the-data-says-about-gun-de…)
43% we’re murders. Additionally, how many of that 43% were defensive shootings? Either home defense or individual self defense?
Additionally how many of those were negligent discharges?
I’ll go ahead and tell you - 549 we’re “accidental” (read: negligent)
You can’t just throw out an arbitrary number and say government can make people less violent or depressed or more responsible by giving themselves more power. That’s not how the world works. People will find a way to be violent to themselves or others or just plain irresponsible but the actions of a few should absolutely NOT curtail the rights of the many.
Registration leads to confiscation. That’s now an established fact. While we’re comparing our country to others, UK, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden, Norway and Canada have all, in recent times, banned and confiscated registered firearms. Australia and Canada have been particularly egregious about it.
People are not dying “over” it. A far majority of those deaths would have happened regardless given that only 549 were “accidents.”
Suicide and murder will take place regardless of means or method. By trying to give more power to an already overstepping government, you’re throwing stones to topple rocks. Solve problems, don’t replace them.
PizzaMan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m aware of that, and it doesn’t change anything.
med.stanford.edu/…/handgun-ownership-associated-w…
Simply owning a gun makes suicide more likely. So your comments about rope and table saws don’t really apply.
And that’s not what I’m saying. Instead of arguing against a boogeyman, how about you address what I’m actually saying.
Good. Some people should not own guns.
Yes they are, -50,000 per year as I’ve already established.
That’s simply not true, and accidents are not the only preventable type of gun death.
As my above link from standford shows, this is not true.
The same applies for homicide.
med.stanford.edu/…/handguns-homicide-risk.html
The evidence supports the exact opposite of your claims.
dartanjinn@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Well, as it happens, your opinion is wrong and that right there is why no one should have a say over who can have what.
Some people should be responsible enough to not use guns negligently or aggressively but they do. Doesn’t mean you get to pick who does and doesn’t get one. It’s little statements like that one that expose little pieces of your sympathy to tyranny. The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Gay black transgender democrat farmers on antidepressants with felony records should have the right to own guns. You don’t get to decide who’s worthy and who’s not.
PizzaMan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How convincing.
And therefore we need better protections.
You have a terrible understanding of tyranny if a law saying “felons shouldn’t own guns”, voted in democratically is tyranny to you.
You got tripped up over something as simple as “people are dying over this”. So no thanks, I’m not going to take your interpretation of the 2nd Amendment.
I never said otherwise. It’s the people’s decision when they go to vote. And the people should decide to prevent these preventable deaths.
dartanjinn@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Laws are not protections. They give government license to punish you.
Saying guns should be registered, then some people shouldn’t own guns, then felons shouldn’t own guns - you keep shifting your narrative to dodge the arguments. Pick one.
The actual text of the amendment is not an interpretation - that’s literally what it says, word for word.
They’re only preventable in the manner they happened which is past tense. You can’t say they wouldn’t have happened otherwise. Again, your opinion is wrong. You favor sacrificing liberty for a little bit of perceived safety. It seems you haven’t spent much time looking into the past other than some people died a couple years ago. Genocide has followed confiscation enough times in history that neither I nor anyone else should vote for any form of gun control because it’s nothing more than an easily digestible double speak that ultimately breaks down to mean confiscation. If you want to vote your liberties away, that’s on you. Stop encouraging people to jump off that bridge with you.