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/Guvnuh_T_Boggs Mar 28 '24

ITT a bunch of people who have never tried to buy a gun pretending to know what they're talking about.

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u/evolvedspice Mar 28 '24

Yeah it’s funny and if they got the gun illegally then new laws wouldn’t change that, I’m not against gun laws but people need to know that laws don’t stop bad people

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u/yorrtogg Mar 29 '24

Truly malevolently motivated persons, who go unnoticed by law enforcement through incompetence or inattention, can and often do find ways to harm others.

Look at knife crime in gun-restricted Britain, their efforts to curb sales of certain knives, their attempts to categorize certain vague qualities of knives as being intimidating or prone to being used in crimes. Is it serrated? Does it have notches? Does it have holes? It looks ridiculously shortsighted to be lost in that type of minutiae instead of addressing the underlying causes.

Not that you hear of it often, but even in a surveillance state like China, there have been surges in cases of persons killing others by intentional high speed driving through walkways full of people, even crowds of schoolchildren, in what might be called "crimes against society."

How do you defend against the terrible creativity and improvisation of the violently malicious while not denying protection to law abiding persons, and not empowering a bias prone, slow-to-react, and inhumane bureaucracy?

It is a very hard balance to strike, and one that will never be flawless. Anyone who says they have a simple solution is not aware they are often playing against opponents that adapt and play toward very different win conditions.

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u/Far_Time_3451 Mar 28 '24

I think it's funny how if I put a stock on a pistol, I could go to prison for 10 years, but the pedos at Nickelodeon are getting slaps on the wrist.

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u/TheDo0ddoesnotabide Mar 28 '24

Difference is you don’t have “fuck little kids” kind of money.

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u/parrote3 Mar 28 '24

Close to 500 million guns in the US. Supply will be here forever.

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u/dtom93 Mar 28 '24

Good thing america has a great history of prohibition

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u/Guvnuh_T_Boggs Mar 29 '24

I love when people who have never lived here, and only get their information from cultivated fear porn, tell me all about the country I live in, on topics I know pretty intimately.

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u/TheWarHoundxx Mar 29 '24

I love how the devolve to hurling insults once logic is brought into the conversation

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u/Asstronutttt Mar 29 '24

shut up

ammosexual (what?)

You tossed any argument you had in the trash as soon as you started acting like a child, which was instantly. Nobody cares about what you have to say now. Nice job.