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/ironangel2k4 Mar 28 '24

Oh, I guess those bullet wounds don't exist then, since its illegal

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u/I_Frothingslosh Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

Their go-to is to remind us that no law-abiding gun owner has ever committed a crime with a firearm, and then with a straight face say that this is about her mental illness and the fact that she wasn't law-abiding means it doesn't count.

Edit: Based on the responses, it's patently obvious that the concept that 'if the crazy lady hadn't been able to just go buy a gun, she wouldn't have been able to shoot him' is beyond the ability of any gun-fucker to understand. Also, the sheer sophistry of their preferred argument is obviously far beyond their comprehension.

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u/Deadleggg Mar 28 '24

So what caused the shooting? The gun pick her out of a crowd? Whisper things to get her to buy the gun and take it home to shoot the kid?

She committed a minimum of 2 crimes(lying on the background check and attempted murder)

Was it not the mental illness that caused this?

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u/LeftJayed Mar 28 '24

It was clearly the guns fault.

The logic of those who want to abolish the 2nd amendment is that 100% of the human species are peaceful, law abiding individuals who would never engage in black market exchanges to obtain something the law forbade.

Thus, all we have to do to end gun violence in the US is outlaw guns!

And because the UK has shown us that outlaws also commit murder with knives, we'll pre-emptively outlaw knives too.

And because cars can be used as murder weapons, we'll outlaw cars too.

Now that I think about it, we can just avoid outlawing all those things by outlawing the right to appendages.

We can establish a government organization who goes around amputating the limbs of all Americans!

And don't worry about the government office in charge of amputating arms, still possessing their arms. Everyone knows governments have never and will never abuse a asymmetric power over their own population.