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Hope that is not sarcastic lol
originally posted by: JAY1980
originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: PorkChop96
I wish everyone trained and was proficient with a firearm. I believe it would save lives.
Agreed.
But...
What of they smoke weed?
Asking for a friend.
CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens hand out medical records to cops without warrants
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: lilzazz
But every day life is not one. And do you know why? Because I, unlike you or others in this thread that condemn gun ownership, am prepared.
originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: PorkChop96
I wish everyone trained and was proficient with a firearm. I believe it would save lives.
originally posted by: PorkChop96
a reply to: lilzazz
If you are a scared #less vigilant romantic that is on you. Don't lump the rest of us in with your fears.
originally posted by: Terpene
a reply to: TzarChasm
Maybe that will help but I doubt it... Every able body man here could have an equivalent of an AR16 at home with ammo, just trough the obligatory military service, and we have barely any mass shootings.
The last mass shooting with significant losses was 2001 with 33 casualties, crazy dude shooting up a parliament building. Since we had a couple more where most are domestic desperation crap where people off everyone in the family, like 6 casualties tops. Oh and a little Islamophobe shooting up a muslim gathering place, and Muslim shooting up his workplace with 10 casualties.
But thats basically it
You think most innocent that get killed, get killed because the killer had improper training? Because then maybe proper training helps.
But my logic indicates that, trough-the-board access to deadly tools and proper training, just makes those that snap all the more effective...
It's better to try and solve the snapping, and there are couple of ways to determine if somone is psychologically stable or not. Psychological resiliency test should be mandatory to have gun and ammo at home. Which is the case here with army weapons at home.
Not everyone can operate a car, and looking at the stats cars are even deadlier than guns... Although that depends on how you look at it. sure once you break it down to the death per distance traveled, guns take the cake.
Tools have an impact on society it's just a fact and mitigating the negative effects is paramount to success. There has never been any negative effect ever that has been mitigated by more of what caused it.
Those are the logics of facts not some romantic fetishized NRA talking points.