Optical illusion
Optical illusion
Think of it this way. The majority of our gun deaths are from suicides, then the next largest amount is from gang/drug violence, after that itâs police (on average 1k a year) then itâs the rest. Meaning that around 4k deaths a year are from literally everything else (domestic/robberies/random acts). We donât really have a gun problem, we have an issue with our society. 99.99999999% of all firearms in civ hands have never been used to harm another person.
Poverty creates the violence, lack of education, lack of social support, lack of opportunities, lack of healthcare. If we fixed those things, our guns violence would plummet overnight. But the owners of this country would rather have us fighting each other than them.
With this logic, saying poverty is what creates the violence, and that the existence of the guns have nothing to do with it, should mean that of you removed all the guns, youâd still have the same proportion of homicide with knives instead.
And I donât think that would be the case.
Poverty necessitates the violence, I agree. But the availability of guns makes the violence accessible.
Both are problems.