• Solumbran@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The issue still starts with people using guns to take lives (as this is the point of guns), so inevitably more guns will mean more deaths by guns. The correlation sort of implies a causality in any case. If you want to kill someone and you have access to a gun or a knife, you will use the gun.

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      1 year ago

      If you want to kill someone and you have access to a gun or a knife, you will use the gun.

      And in doing so, you’ll be able to kill a lot more people. A gun will almost always be able to kill more people than a knife.

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        1 year ago

        Except this is verifiable bullshit, as you’ve been told numerous times. Increases in guns do not cause increases in homicide, nor does your gun grabbing bullshit reduce it.