The stricter your gun laws the lower your gun violence. It’s empirical evidence. The argument begins and ends here.
Note: this chart is from last year. Since then Texas has massively eased its gun laws and it’s gun violence has skyrocketed. You don’t have to live this way, but if you want to change it you have to elect gun sense democrats to your state governments. Elections matter.
@TLDuryea okay, Texan here. So I agree with your analysis. But here's the thing I hear from members of both the Black and LGBTQ communities I speak to in and around the blue dot. We need to be armed to protect ourselves against those wanting to do harm to us.
Before you respond that thinking is wrong, reminder of how the NRA came out against the BPP in California. Reminder of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negroes_with_Guns
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It’s the guns
“Although opponents of sensible gun control…continue to put the spotlight on the shooters’ motivations or unstable mental states, these are cynical diversions from the one obvious truth: The common thread…is the absurdly easy access to guns.”
@TLDuryea I appreciate that you’re bringing data and information to people, but given that a large number of LGBTQIA+ folks use Mastodon and have been on this platform for a very long time, AND we just experienced another mass shooting at one of our clubs, please consider using a CW for toots about gun violence.
Plus, you never know who has been a victim of gun violence directly or indirectly, and it’s kind to use the tools we have not to trigger someone’s trauma responses.
@TLDuryea Content warning! You have the ability to conceal your content except for a little bit of text describing why it’s concealed, like this post! Just click the CW in your browser or app, and it will give you this option.
It’s also fun to use it for silly purposes, too, like concealing a punchline to a joke you put in the “warning” line.
"There are many extenuating circumstances that lead to gun deaths in the US.
Let’s start with the easy one: guns."
https://twitter.com/ZhiZhuWeb/status/1529827999348031489
“"Right-wing politicians are quick to blame video games, race, mental illness, and literally anything else but guns for America’s high number of mass shootings... The number of guns appears to be directly related to the number of gun deaths in America." https://t.co/1O3oxWkzNK”
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