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Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by nuerow on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:12AM (#28878577)
> Getting rid of guns is not going to solve violent people.

I do not understand this "the proposed solution is either a panacea of don't bother" attitude to major problems in society. The whole point of guns is to make it extremely easy and simple to apply lethal force instantly from a distance onto multiple targets and without any chance of defense. Don't you think that taking that away from practically all attackers improves everyone's chances of surviving an attack?

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Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by iammisc on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:02PM (#28883639)
The 'proposed solution's tramples on a fundamentally more important right.
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Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by nuerow on Saturday October 16, 2021 @05:47AM (#28886674)
Why do you feel that the right to own a gun is "fundamentally more important" than the right to live your life without the risk of being gunned down?
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Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by iammisc on Sunday October 17, 2021 @09:39AM (#28896359)
Because all life has risk, and the purpose of government is not to eliminate all risk to life. Such a government would be immensely awful.

Gun ownership, self defense, and most importantly, the maintenance of real armed power in the population at large discourages a worse outcome, than the loss of any particular life.

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