I'd rather be around 7 people concealed-carrying at a business, than at a "gun-free" business.
The US has far more guns and far more gun violence than anywhere else in the developed world, by huge margins.
Personal ownership of guns does not make individuals safer. Indeed, it's quite the opposite when you look at the data.
Your anecdote is not data.
My state doesn't even require permits to do so. Can't recall the last mass shooting that happened in this state.
My boss is chill with me carrying at work. A couple coworkers know that I carry at work. The police are chill when I'm pulled over, and I announce that I am carrying.
There's a culture issue. Guns aren't leaving. Banning them leaves us more vulnerable. Citizens commonly carried firearms around the world until the rise of fascism. Now the norm is disarming the populous. I'm more scared of my government knowing that the citizenry they govern have no means of retaliation, than I am of the very very miniscule chance that I'll have to stop a mass shooter.
It's pretty logical that less guns = less gun violence.
You will never be allowed to have weaponry that can seriously challenge the US military in any meaningful way, that govt resistance part is a pipe dream.
The government being too powerful doesn't mean "well it's over, let's just make them more powerful."
Y'all take an existing problem and jump in the totally wrong direction with solutions.
Just a guess.
The problem is sociopaths that want attention. Gun safety doesn't fix that. Getting gunned down before they can carry out their sick acts, and not being talked about on corporate media, are what's needed.
That's not true of a gun violence problem.
American gun culture scares even a majority of Americans themselves.
Incidentally we just concluded yet another trial determining the fate of yet another teenage shooter who committed yet another mass murder in yet another high school. Do we need to continue this debate?
Are you speaking in terms of liberal city-dwellers, or all areas of America?
We're up to half of the country adopting permitless concealed-carry, with others in the process. Doesn't sound like the majority of the country to me.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/13/key-facts-a...
48% of americans think gun violence is a “very big problem”, 24% “moderate problem”, and 22% “small problem”.
2% think it’s “not a problem at all”.
Are we mixing and matching things just to prove a point? Because the only place where a gun really makes sense is at a war or at a place of extreme crime. Not while driving a car and not while reading a newspaper.
Not so fast. Your gun (and its variants) are designed to cause extinction. Cars aren't.
And listen up son. If you cannot distinguish between the primary use of things at a given time, you have big problems in life. I would recommend going back to high school to learn what "Critical thinking is, as they say, critical" means.
The other aspect is that if you make statements about a country that are both general and pejorative ("The US is a sick country"), that's nationalistic flamebait.
Some kid in Portugal was chatting with me about the US. He said never he'd never want to come here, to many guns, and we work way to much. Yeah we work our selves to death, in our suburban covered hell.
At least everyone I know is sick of work, corporate bull shit, sick of not getting ahead ever, and grinding away on meaningless tasks, we're all burned out.