@raymondpert As much as I'm not a fan of any restrictions, I do think that demanding people to have at least shown sufficient proficiency and gun etiquette, knowledge of safety rules and not being known for domestic violence or convicted of violent crimes is reasonable to demand.
Still the overlooked Propblem nationwide is the #ViolenceCulture that spreads #PropagandaOfTheDeed and supports #StochasticTerrorism in the form of #AdvancedSuicides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3VQULyT390
@kkarhan @raymondpert Why would you not be a fan of restrictions?
Has it escaped your attention that the country with the least gun restrictions is also the country with the highest rate gun murders?
I imagine you aren't also against driver's licenses? So what's the difference?
@TomSwirly @raymondpert
1. If you want to claim that I'm your enemy then you are mistaken. I'll refuse to fit that box.
2. If you read my toot even halfway through, you'd realize that I think that things like a driving license are more than justified, and that DUI is rightfully intolerable.
3. You try to ignore the fact that the problem are what people do to other people, not that they use fireams.
4. Actually, there are multiple places with more guns per capita, but that's not the point.
> You try to ignore the fact that the problem are what people do to other people, not that they use fireams.
No, I do not.
The problem of violent people cannot be completely fixed, but it can be mitigated, and every society mitigates it by preventing people access to some classes of weapons.
Private citizens are universally not allowed to cultivate anthrax, synthesize Sarin, or build firebombs.
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The idea that in the US, the left will outshoot the right in a shooting war is not reasonable, considering the already huge arms differential and the attitude toward murdering strangers.
The only hope is a stronger society, not we individually taking arms.
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Also, I was correct to say that the US has more guns per capita than anywhere else: twice as many (or far more):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country
https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/gun-ownership-by-country/
Please adjust your beliefs accordingly! 😃
@TomSwirly @raymondpert that number only accounts for official statistics and legal ownership.
For example, Germany has at leat 16,7M confirmed cuns that didn't get registered in 1972.
Add to that inventory losses from military and police since WW1 and the fact that it's logistical center and harsh criminalization makes it a center for trafficking you'll get > 40M illegal guns on ~ 80M people.
(Video in German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No7BTPf52NM
@TomSwirly @raymondpert amd that doesn't even account for #EUgunban retroactively criminalizing magazines that were previously fully legal to buy with no paperwork and the technological advancements in #3Dprinting and it's safe to say that if guns were the problem, Germany with ~ 15M legal guns per capita should've expected the same amount of shootings per capita and guns as the USA does.
Yet it doesn't even come close at all...
Mind you JStark was from Germany...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlB2QV5wVxg
@TomSwirly @raymondpert In short, meither #guns nor #laws can explain the situation in the #USA, since #Canada has been way more relaxed in several parts yet never camr close to the #USA, so it's certainly a cultural thing...
And #ViolenceCulture - and maybe inaccessibility of #MentalHealthCare - does provide a better explaination.
@TomSwirly @raymondpert no, not really.
Any #Prohibition is only being used as a means to criminalize, prosecute, harass and outlaw marginalized groups and people.
Any prohibition is bad - regardless if weapons, drugs, alcohol or sexwork.
Because only a legalized market can be surveyed and regulations be enforced.
A good and modern example is the ban of #dockless #eScooter rentals, in the #UK resulting in widespread ownership of #eScooters and rampant amounts of (illegalized) driving with them.
Kevin Karhan 
Tom Ritchford