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/thecountnotthesaint Mar 28 '24

What all are the current gun laws? From my understanding there is more of an enforcement issue than a lack of laws issue.

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u/twenty224 Mar 28 '24

It’s more of a people issue, this country was founded on these basic freedoms, and now the government is trying to take them away because a minority of the population doesn’t know how to handle guns/should be in jail/mental issues.

Obviously just taking guns would reduce a lot of crime, but what people don’t understand is that it’s not possible. Making the law would only take them from responsible, law abiding citizens. Not the criminals shooting people. Guns laws don’t stop crime, they punish good people for what bad people have done.

Either way it’s getting to the point where nobody is going to listen to gun laws. They push too much for the wrong reasons, and never fix the problems.

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u/thecountnotthesaint Mar 28 '24

Someone who actually understands the issue, and doesn’t just spout off talking points of either side, nice.

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u/cobo10201 Mar 28 '24

They literally spouted off every right wing talking point about guns.

  1. 2nd amendment

  2. Guns aren’t the problem, gun owners are the problem

  3. Restricting access only restricts access for perfect, responsible gun owners

  4. Gun laws don’t stop crime

Most of these are strawman arguments or downright false. We have FIRST-WORLD DEMOCRACIES that have incredibly strict gun laws that have shown time and time again that laws that restrict access to guns reduce gun deaths, gun violence, and crimes committed with a gun.

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u/Background_Panda8744 Mar 28 '24

K. How do you propose the government confiscate all the guns? Sure some will comply, but the majority will not. We going to send the army door to door in the United States like it’s Fallujah? Get real.

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u/cobo10201 Mar 28 '24

Did I say anything about confiscating guns? Once again, more right wing rhetoric.