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Would your comment be as sarcastic if you replaced cars with guns? Doubt it.
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And yet cars kill a lot more people than guns.
Not in the United States they don't.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/116-people-died-gun-violence-day-us-year/story?id=97382759/
Only if you count suicides. The countries that don't have guns still have suicides, so banning guns would not prevent those deaths.
Even putting pills in blister packs caused a statistically significant drop in OD suicides using OTC drugs.
Turns out that many people just need a bit of resistance to stop them from implementing a permanent solution to a temporary situation.
South Korea has no guns and people manage to jump off bridges just fine
SK has a much higher suicide rate than the US, so maybe the underlying issue should be fixed instead of trying to impose higher barriers to people trying to kill themselves
Oh, if you say so, then it must be true
That's like if I was to say "only if you count fast cars. The countries that don't have as many fast cars still have accidents, so speed limits should be universally abolished."
“Guns don’t kill people - people kill people. Guns defend people against people with smaller guns.”
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