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Ichoria wrote:The second amendment is the cause for violence though. Widespread access to guns exacerbates literally every societal and economic problem. School shootings don't happen in other countries. Militarized local police forces as an extreme response to the prospect of gun violence at the minimum sign of domestic dispute isn't a thing in other countries.

Like, I understand your desire as a responsible gun-owning American to fight for your 2nd amendment rights, and I kinda understand the role gun ownership plays in the national ethos of the US, but to pretend like the cause of excessive gun violence isn't widespread access to guns in the first place is farcical.

There wouldn't be gun violence if people didn't think they had to use violence to get what they want/solve their problems. The use of firearms in domestic violence, robbery, suicides, mass shootings, etc speaks to larger and deeper issues that so t simply disappear if all guns are taken off the street. Someone suicidal will still be suicidal, someone who is angry at the world will still be full of hate, and someone caught in the dark depth of poverty/drugs/street violence will still be so. Now, there is no doubt that guns provide a convenient means to an end. But to get rid of them all, I believe, will bring little true solution to the issues at the core of their misuse whilst also creating larger issues in it's wake.

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