But guns don't kill people. And gun laws don't prevent criminals from getting guns. At least that's what I thought you've been trying to tell us.
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Making sure known previous criminals and current criminals don’t have illegal guns is different than putting restrictions on law abiding legal gun owners
This seems to show that California has a lower than average gun ownership and gun violence rates than most of the US.
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To be fair, I didn't look too far into this, this was the first set of charts I found.
This is violent crime in general (as of 2020 it might have changed):This seems to show that California has a lower than average gun ownership and gun violence rates than most of the US.
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To be fair, I didn't look too far into this, this was the first set of charts I found.
Unless you have purely reactive restrictions, such as "If you have a criminal record and we happen to see a gun in your possession you're in big trouble", there is no way to put a restriction on criminals without also putting restrictions on law abiding gun owners.
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If you're asking if I'm ok with abortion, yes, I am. There's quite a lot of consideration that goes into whether or not a fetus is a human being that experiences life the same way the rest of us do, but also what choices a mother, as host, should have. I stand with the mother in this case.
You said that you don't agree that gun control laws work, but we literally see them working in other countries. Why would they not work here?
While it may end up being true, it's not unheard of for the media to jump to "crime shut this store down!" when that isn't true, such as with Walgreens locations in SF that were already slated for closing for other reasons.
I’m not judging you but I want to ask you a question. Are you okay with people crushing turtle eggs at the beach?
If you wonder and are generally of low intelligence, then yes. Racism is a typical trade of stupid people.
I'm trying to figure out what the point of this comment is other than baiting. Nope, can't think of any other reason.
Courts and prisons deal with crime. But being reactive has certainly solved not much so far.
No, that wouldn't be, but an egg isn't a 4 year old, is it? It isn't born yet.
Fetus is just a stage of development. Humans develop outside of the womb. Hence Infant, toddler, tween, teen, adult.
The point really is that until something comes out of an egg/is born, it's not viewed the same way by all. I don't agree that a woman should be able to have an abortion a week before she's due, but a month or so in, that's really her choice. We're not talking about the same thing.
I don’t necessarily agree, but I respect your opinion. Especially considering you have a much more moderate view than some.
Something a lot of people (not just you 😃) don’t understand is that a civilian ar-15 is not a machine gun. Semi-automatic means single shots. 1 pull of the trigger=1 shot. Basically the same as pistols. So while they may look scary they are not the same a assault rifle. It’s confusing because of what people are told and that the AR in ar-15 stands for armalite rifle. Not assault rifle. Armalite was the original designer of the ar-15.
A problem in the US (and I need to work on it myself) is to try to have fruitful political conversations. After all, we do live in a free republic. Meaning, we should try not to shout down each other.
It’s sad that we may not even know exactly if you’re joking or not… US-centred as it may be, Apple isn’t in the business of catering to niche markets, and there are few countries in the world (save for some dangerous cities and regions here and there) where gun violence is so prevalent (gee, I wonder why… 🙄), so I’m guessing they’d never go for it.Unfortunately this is the one of many now that the ice has been broken.
It's time for Apple to move from developing personal health and communication products to personal protection products.
Somebody has to do it it might as well be Apple.
However, and morbid as this may sound, Apple might want to extend the Apple Watch and the iPhone’s emergency-detection features and tweak their algorithms to also detect gunshots. Yes, it’s sad, but if the technology is there… 🤷♂️ And it would annoy (or, you know, trigger) the heck out of gun aficionados, as gun ranges would instantly register as false positives. 😂
was the end a /s?
This 'watermelon' stuff was in the news quite permanently a year (or two?) ago.
Just a friend looking in, letting you know that alternate realities do exist.
Murders per year in America from gunshots 20,000, in the UK? 35
Number of mass shootings 648 vs ZERO for the uk
American people’s relationships with tools designed purely to end life is a long and complex one. Solutions would be very tricky to implement. But to deny that your laws are a large part of the issue is akin to an ostrich burying their head in the sand.