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I know Gaf is like 95% in favor of gun control. But pretend you are debating from the other side, arguments used against you, etc. and if there are some actual anti control dudes here, I definitely want to hear your thoughts.
So basically as I understand it, we have by far the most guns, we have by far the most gun deaths, and it is by far the easiest to obtain a gun in America.
But my Facebook feed is full of posts like 'drugs are illegal and it really NO ONE does drugs!'
'You'd be taking guns away from us good people, and you'd be defenseless from the bad guys who would still easily get guns'
Basically, it seems like people think it wouldn't make a difference if we had stricter gun laws. But there's an entire worlds worth of evidence that it would, right? Everywhere else has stricter gun laws and less deaths. I'm sensing a correlation....
Idiots on Facebook may post shit. But I'm assuming not everyone who is against gun control is stupid. Like, they have to debate this stuff in political forums right? So what are THOSE people saying? Give me the 'smart' version of the argument.
FWIW, I don't think you will ever March to every door in America and demand that people hand their guns over. And there are SO many firearms around, that we'd absolutely still lead in gun fatalities even if there was a mass gun purge. So if we did pass stricter laws, how do you propose we go about enforcing it? (But my original question is still the important one.)
So basically as I understand it, we have by far the most guns, we have by far the most gun deaths, and it is by far the easiest to obtain a gun in America.
But my Facebook feed is full of posts like 'drugs are illegal and it really NO ONE does drugs!'
'You'd be taking guns away from us good people, and you'd be defenseless from the bad guys who would still easily get guns'
Basically, it seems like people think it wouldn't make a difference if we had stricter gun laws. But there's an entire worlds worth of evidence that it would, right? Everywhere else has stricter gun laws and less deaths. I'm sensing a correlation....
Idiots on Facebook may post shit. But I'm assuming not everyone who is against gun control is stupid. Like, they have to debate this stuff in political forums right? So what are THOSE people saying? Give me the 'smart' version of the argument.
FWIW, I don't think you will ever March to every door in America and demand that people hand their guns over. And there are SO many firearms around, that we'd absolutely still lead in gun fatalities even if there was a mass gun purge. So if we did pass stricter laws, how do you propose we go about enforcing it? (But my original question is still the important one.)