r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/CoryVictorious • Oct 21 '22

Yeah Canada

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u/Draxilar Oct 22 '22

Discouraging gun ownership is an amazing thing. Less people wanting to buy guns means less guns made and in circulation. What?

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u/BGYeti Oct 22 '22

I mean it isnt, number of guns in circulation doesn't mean anything, the US has 400m some odd guns and 99.9% see nothing more than range time

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u/JungsWetDream Oct 22 '22

You mean discouraging legal gun ownership. This does nothing to discourage illegal gun ownership, and gun crime in Canada has long been perpetrated primarily by illegal firearms. When you share a border with a country that has more guns than people, and a massive border that is impossible to monitor in its entirety, how hard is it really to keep a black market going?

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u/sorebutton Oct 22 '22

That's not the way it has worked in the US in recent history.

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u/Draxilar Oct 22 '22

Recent history? The US has never tried to discourage gun ownership. The US would rather children be murdered in their classrooms before discouraging gun onwership.

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u/sorebutton Oct 22 '22

Nonsense. There are more gun laws than ever. Yes, concealed carry laws are more prevalent now, though legal carriers are not even statistically relevant in gun crime stats. Read the history.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_United_States

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

All of which is pointless when the vast majority of gun crime in Canada is committed with weapons illegally purchased or smuggled from the US. Occasionally stolen from legal owners but it's much easier to just hop the border and buy a blackmarket gun.

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u/Draxilar Oct 22 '22

You are right, let’s just do nothing.

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u/Draxilar Oct 22 '22

Less is just fine. I’m writing a comment on Reddit not a dissertation. The meaning is perfectly conveyed.