• Wahots@pawb.social
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    29 days ago

    All guns should be surrendered and destroyed en masse. They are fun, but society would be happier, healthier, and with far less suicides and DA without them.

    I’ve seen too many close calls to consider them safe for society at large.

    • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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      29 days ago

      Wouldn’t that be nice?

      But the truth would be: someone will find a way to make guns on their own, then the rest of us would be defenseless against that.

      This is the reason why militaries have nuclear weapons despite wanting peace.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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        28 days ago

        Guns don’t defend against guns.

        Edit: People who have to deal with the public who might be armed don’t do it with a gun in their hand, they do it behind bulletproof glass. The odds that a given gun is going to shoot a bad guy moments before the bad guy shoots a good guy are a fraction of the odds that that same gun will be used to accidentally kill a child.