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@alper

does this suggest you are not at all concerned with the level of gun violence in the US?

I am concerned with the level of violence in the US, my concern has little to do with guns as guns largely play a role in reducing overall violence. The issue is the violence is very high and that should be addressed, but it has little to do with guns as part of that solution (other than just ensuring citizens are armed and responsible).

Because the laws change when there is a problem and many believe that there is.

Yes, laws do change, and people think there is a problem. I certainly wouldnt be surprised if laws change for the worse. When you have an uneducated populace like we do unfortunately they are easily manipulated to beleive this sort of stuff.

I cannot accept that Sandy hook is the price to pay.

Its not. We live in an age where anyone can 3d print or make a fully automatic gun in a few minutes. You literally cant take away access anymore. One guy with a 100$ welding kit showed on youtube how to make a fully automatic gun out of a throw away metal bed frame. Guns are simple, any fool could make one with nearly no resources

More over, sandy hook is an illusion of a problem that is the result of large numbers, not a gun problem.

I did the math on a post sometime back. You have two times greater chance of being struck by lightning in your lifetime than being killed in a school shooting. We are talking about things that are effectively non-existant when you consider the numbers. Moreover they wouldnt be prevented by taking away guns, as we have seen with people with pipebombs (which again are very trivial to make).

I’m able, some are and some aren’t. They cannot fight. The whole point of civilization is that we protect our weakest.

Protect them how? This makes no sense. If someone decides to kill you there is nothing a society can do to prevent that. There wont be a cop standing next to you when they come into your home to murder you and you will be long dead before a cop arrives… how exactly do you want to be protected? There is no actual way you can be.

Half of America is armed to the teeth and specifically for a civil war.

Well no, i know a lot of gun folks and not a single one of them are doing it because of a civil war… People arm themselves because its the responsible safe thing to do, full stop.

Outcomes are only getting worse.

Yes, all around the world people are getting more violent, even when they dont have guns… that is the problem, and why its respionsible to be armed.