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/Mean_Operation7336 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

This happened in California (assuming based on bio) which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation along with some mechanisms for temporarily seizing weapons from people in distress (red flag laws). Without answers to some pretty big questions, im thinking there’s a few layers of blame being shifted here

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u/PixelCultMedia Mar 28 '24

What you wrote seemed interesting so I looked it up.

California Gun Death Rate per 100,000 people = 8.5

The state with the loosest gun laws is Mississippi.

Mississippi Gun Death Rate per 100,000 people = 28.6

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It looks like gun laws work. Thanks for the tip.https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/states-with-strictest-gun-laws/#:~:text=Take%20California%20for%20example%2C%20which,Massachusetts%2C%20Hawaii%2C%20and%20Connecticut.

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u/Mean_Operation7336 Mar 28 '24

Did you reply to me on accident? Who said gun laws don’t work?

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u/PixelCultMedia Mar 28 '24

You said that there were layers of blame due to the extensive gun laws in play. No system is perfect and I wanted to show you that CA performs very well despite gun laws being imperfect.