America isn’t the only country in the world with hardware stores yet is still the only country in the world with weekly mass shootings – 80% of which use legally purchased firearms and 0% of which use home made guns.
Comment on NY bill would require a criminal history background check for the purchase of a 3D printer
pup_atlas@pawb.social 8 months ago
Oh, did we start requiring criminal background checks for pipes and metal stock too? This is the same problem we’re facing in the rest of the country, everything can be used as a weapon, and requiring background checks on all of them is gonna do nothing to stop gun crime. Regulate the damn guns, that is the only thing that will help.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 8 months ago
trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
0% of which use home made guns
You need to brush up on your propaganda.
Ghost guns have been used in three separate mass shootings in California: Saugus (2019), Tehama County (2017), and Santa Monica (2013). Twelve people, including two teenagers, were killed in these shootings. Dozens more were shot and injured. The Tehama and Santa Monica shooters were prohibited from purchasing firearms, and the Saugus shooter was a minor who, by virtue of his age, was not legally able to possess any firearm under California law.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Oh I’m sorry, they’ve been used in three mass shootings since 2013, which is almost 0.01% of mass shootings in that period. How terribly misleading of my propaganda.
Practically neck and neck with the 80% that use legally purchased firearms and the 10% that use the legally purchased and poorly secured firearm of a family member.
Garbanzo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
"I sure am glad this doesn’t happen every week"
- Shinzo Abe
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 8 months ago
“The important thing is that no gun owners were mildly inconvenienced”
- Thoudands of dead school children, executed partners and victims of crime
eddietrax@dmv.social 8 months ago
You’re getting downvoted to shit on most of your comments but just wanted to say you are not wrong.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Except comments where I use a % – those still have a conspicuously positive score.
scytale@lemm.ee 8 months ago
US: We have a gun problem.
Also, US: We’ve tried everything but regulate guns and we’re all out of ideas!
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 8 months ago
No you don’t understand. The pro-gun community would support a solution, it just needs to be instantly and 100% effective without inconveniencing a single gun owner or costing anything.
It’s a completely reasonable position and not at all just an excuse to do nothing.
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 8 months ago
Maybe the answer is that every single human being should own a gun and carry it every single place they go 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Isn’t it just fascinating how all the solutions proposed by gun owners and Republican politicians just happen to coincide with what’s most profitable for the gun lobby?
But I’m sure people who manufacture guns are much more moral than the tobacco industry, oil industry, sugar industry, asbestos industry and all those other groups that got caught putting profits before people’s lives.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Where do I put it when I’m showering tho?
trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
If you follow the link below, you can see a summary of all the gun laws you think New York doesn’t have.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_New_York#Summar…
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Lol, are you insane? I’m not against better controls, but if you think the US is lacking in gun control laws and regulations you are sorely mistaken.