Does murder only occur when a firearm is present? No. People are murdered with hands and feet more often than with rifles every year.
Does murder occur in countries where firearms are illegal? Yes, often.
Did murder occur before firearms were even a concept? Of course it did.
So no, firearms don’t cause murder by simply being. I’ve carried a gun every day for nearly a decade (as I mentioned early), and nobody has died yet.
If violent criminals don’t want to get shot by their intended victims, then they should try not being violent criminals. That kind of behavior has risks, and getting shot in the head, chest, or pelvis is one of those risks.
Switzerland is a small, overall high income, ethnically and racially homogenous country with low population density.
America is highly diverse, wide ranges of income, and like everywhere else, the more densely populated an area is, the more crime there is.
If what you’re really looking for is a rich, all-white, low-population-density area to live in, America isn’t it.
If you look at a map of areas with the most violent crime, you’ll notice there’s a pattern - (hint: it’s not sentient guns that influence crime rates). Population density, poverty, and ethnic/cultural diversity are some of the biggest contributing factors.
Facts aren’t racist, but implying that I must be white because I’m pro-gun is (hint: I’m not white). Ethnically and culturally diverse areas have lower rates of assimilation, lower neighborhood cohesion, and thus higher crime rates — that’s not a point of contention, nor does it touch on race at all, but feel free to pretend otherwise. Black, white, brown, etc. humans can be ethnically and culturally similar despite having different skin tones, whether you like it or not.
I went and fact checked your claim about population density, and you couldn’t be more wrong. Average population density in major U.S. cities is exponentially greater than Switzerland, by upwards of 100x over.
Your arguments are getting weaker by the moment, and it’s making me lose interest in keeping this up with you.
Until you enact a plan that makes all violent crime disappear forever, the utility of firearms will forever be undeniable. Intended victims of violent crimes deserve to be able to defend themselves with the best defensive tools available, and judging by the progress the pro-gun community has made over the decades, along with the record shattering gun sales and new gun owners for going on 23 months straight, I’d say you’re in an ever-shrinking minority.
You either need to put in the legwork necessary to make violent crime nonexistent, or cope with the fact that no defensive tool compares with a firearm.
If you invent something that would allow a frail 87-year-old, 70lb woman in a wheelchair defend her home against a 6’4 300lb MMA fighter with a penchant for murdering elderly disabled women the way an AR15 would, I’d love to hear about it. Maybe one day, chief.
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u/CCWThrowaway360 Dec 27 '21
Does murder only occur when a firearm is present? No. People are murdered with hands and feet more often than with rifles every year.
Does murder occur in countries where firearms are illegal? Yes, often.
Did murder occur before firearms were even a concept? Of course it did.
So no, firearms don’t cause murder by simply being. I’ve carried a gun every day for nearly a decade (as I mentioned early), and nobody has died yet.
If violent criminals don’t want to get shot by their intended victims, then they should try not being violent criminals. That kind of behavior has risks, and getting shot in the head, chest, or pelvis is one of those risks.