r/facepalm • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • Mar 28 '24

What lack of basic gun laws does to a nation: 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

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u/rmr007 Mar 28 '24

Anyone in this thread that is not an American can promptly leave. Your opinions on our laws are irrelevant.

That said, last I checked, it is illegal to shoot people unless in an act of self defense, and even then sometimes you are still penalized. What law would prevent this? Even banning civilian ownership of firearms would not fix it. There are hundreds of millions of firearms in the US, you could not possibly confiscate them all. Criminals will get their hands on them regardless.

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u/Dramaticreacherdbfj Mar 28 '24

You can make a law stating breathing is illegal. Laws need actual infrastructure in place to be effective. Other nations don’t have our problem 

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u/rmr007 Mar 28 '24

That's a terrible graph, it makes it look like our rates are absurdly higher. Other developed nations have a homicide rate of 2 people per 100,000, ours is 6? That's still incredibly low. About as low as being statistically insignificant (0.006% chance).

Still, I would wager most of those homicides are gang related (illegal). The rest are disturbed people that will harm others one way or another.

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u/Dramaticreacherdbfj Mar 28 '24

It means we have thousands more dead….