
In other countries that have banned firearms since they were invented, yes it works. Find me one statistic, just one example, of a country with as many firearms as the United States where gun control has proven effective in reducing gun crimes. Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in not just the U.S. but the world, and they have shootings DAILY. I donât understand why itâs so difficult for you guys to comprehend that criminals donât follow the law.
Thanks for not providing an example and proving my point then trying to pivot to a totally unrelated topic because you have the IQ of a 3rd grader. Illegal immigration is a crime that can be stopped. We have genuine statistics proving that with an effectively secured border we can reduce illegal immigration ten fold. What do you think is going to happen when legal gun owners are forced to surrender their guns while criminals with illegal ghost guns retain their firearms?
Not to mention, legal gun owners wouldnât be âforcedâ to surrender weapons, you would just ban the selling of them and ban carrying them. It stays in your house and if youâre caught with one, itâs a huge punishment. Itâs not hard to build a system that doesnât require police going door to door looking for guns lol
You say âstatistics show that gun control reduces gun crimesâ but when statistics show that a secured border reduces illegal immigration, sex trafficking, and drug smuggling it apparently doesnât count? Theyâre two totally and completely unrelated arguments. Just because enforcement works for one thing doesnât mean it works for everything, and yes itâs very hard to build a system that prevents its citizens from exercising their constitutional rights, tf?
Ohhhhh now itâs constitutional rights and thatâs why we canât get rid of them! Damn! Welp I guess thatâs that then. Canât change it! Canât conceptually think of a way to incentivize gun owners to give up guns or heavily punish them if theyâre caught with weapons! Damn!
And Iâm not the one saying border control doesnât work, you are. Youâre invalidating gun control stats yet you fundamentally agree with EXACTLY what you fear for gun owners but against immigrants. I donât give a shit about the morality of it, I just think youâre trying to be slippery when you definitely ainât that lol.
The use of sarcasm in a debate is typically an indication of emotional or defensive tactics. Youâre yet to give me a point of data or reference to defend your argument, so you use sarcasm as a substitute. To a certain extent I understand the use of it, but the timing and context in which you used it is awkward and really only effective against people who are emotionally reactive, and Iâm not one of them. Let me know when youâd like to communicate like an adult.
Iâm not invalidating gun control stats. In a countries where firearms have been heavily regulated and restricted for centuries, gun control works just because they donât have that many guns to manage. To compare a country with little to no weapons to a country with the most weapons and to then say âit worked for them so it must for work for usâ is painfully unrealistic, and again statistics from Chicago show it does absolutely nothing to prevent gun crimes.
You ever stop to think that change takes time? Like obv itâs not going to be an instantaneous fix. Itâs absurd to think that it could be. But change HAS to start somewhere. I think itâs pretty irrefutable that the fact we have at least one mass shooting per day (let alone other murders) on average should be motivation enough to realize that we need to make a difference for the better. The status quo is literally people dying.
Agreed 100%, I donât think leaving things as they should is the correct move at all, but punishing law abiding citizens because criminals have low impulse control along with other mental issues is not the way to solve this issue. Itâs a people problem at the end of the day, not a gun problem. Take a gun away from a shooter and heâll just use a car or a blade instead.
Iâm not sure why you feel that adding restrictions to peopleâs ability to access certain firearms is punishing law abiding citizens? Like back in 2018 they raised the legal age to buy tobacco to 21. Was that âpunishingâ law abiding citizens? Or was it an attempt to protect them from cancer and death maybe?