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Re:FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone by wyldfire on Saturday August 10, 2019 @12:04PM (#20662801)
> Many of the recently-publicized shootings in the US have occurred in California, which has some of the most strict firearms laws in the nation

If California's laws prevented some but not all of the shootings then it still should be considered a success.

> Why guns are the hot-button issue and heart disease isn’t plastered over the media 24/7? I

I don't think this is honest. If your mother and father died in a mass shooting you would not feel the same as if they had died of heart disease. To treat the trauma of violent deaths differently from illness/disease is very natural.

Rationally, if heart disease suddenly killed tens of people in a single event you had better believe it would make headlines.

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Re:FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone by DuskStar on Saturday August 10, 2019 @03:20PM (#20663996)
> If California's laws prevented some but not all of the shootings then it still should be considered a success.

If California's laws decreased the frequency of shootings, we'd expect California's shootings per year per person to be better than Texas.

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