If guns themselves are the real problem, then the people who own the most guns would be responsible for the most gun violence.
But that's not the case.
So stop talking about taking away guns like that would really fix things.
Would there be less gun violence if there were no guns? Of course. But why stop there? There would be no violence at all if we chained everyone in the world to a wall. Let's just ignore the real reason for people using tools improperly and strip liberties away instead of fixing the reasons why people use tools improperly!
Like... ask any decent parent. If their one kid decided to hit his sibling with a baseball when he got mad... would the parents pull the kid out of his little league? Would they throw away every baseball and other spherical object in the house? After all, the kid doesn't need balls to play with, and when he throws those instead of just slapping his sibling it can cause more harm.
Fuck no. The parents address the real issue, the poor judgment to be violent towards the sibling. They teach he kid to deal with frustration in different, less violent ways and/or they look for the reason why he got upset in the first place and try to fix that.
Don't take away guns. Fix the reasons why people feel the need to use guns improperly.
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