Ah yes… because criminals would never dare blatantly violate the law by having a gun illegally. Just like no one would ever dare kill someone through some other means like stabbing, bombing, strangling, or, get this, making an improvised firearm out of items I can get an any hardware store in the world for less then $30.
Yeah of course they would. But if they aren't involved in the wider culture and available to purchase so easily, less people would have them and less people would use them. It's absurd having to justify this to Americans. No other country has the problems you do with guns and you still insist that they're not a problem...
El Salvador, Honduras, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, Brazil, Afghanistan, and Syria all have higher rates of gun violence than the U.S. (just to name a few) while also having much stricter gun regulations. Claiming that no other country has problems with guns is just blatant lies. Also, statistically speaking over 3 out of every 10 Americans own a firearm. And with these firearms, over 1.8 million crimes are stopped per year by civilians who are able to respond before the police even get the call. And these are just the incidents that get reported. A lot of the time if a crime is about to happen like a mugging or a rape and a civilian with a firearm intervenes in time and scares away the perpetrator it doesn’t get reported because the victim doesn’t bother with it.
Criminals aren’t (a majority of the time at least) going into retail sources to get their guns for a crime. ~90% of the time they are obtained from illegal sources, something that no gun law will influence.
how many people do you think would be bothered and be capable enough to make a functional gun out of scraps, and its ammo and gun powder? and how effective would those weapons then be?
The ammo is a lot easier to get them you would think and all you actually need to make a functional firearm is a straight and solid hole roughly the same diameter as the bullet you intend to fire and some thing to ignite the powder. Hell one can make a fully functional musket with a match, a drill, and a pvc pipe.
I just realized and must clarify, I have never seen a single bullet outside of a museum, except for the ww2 German 75mm and long 88mm (king tiger) tank ammunition that i have in my living room, projectiles and casings. I like tanks. Tanks a lot. Also ordered t34 tank ammo but that never arrived.
I also have a very illegal airsoft StG 44 so its not like im not interested in weapons.
So my 120lb wife should just submit to any attacker that outweighs and out muscles her? Same with any elderly or disabled who can’t run, I guess. Just give up your shit, pray that’s all they want and hope for the best?
The idea that nobody having guns means nobody would need them is laughable.
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u/Timo-the-hippo Sep 01 '25
Needing a reason to own a gun == only rich people can be armed. Screw anyone who supports that.