Anonymous A started this discussion 3 years ago#104,276
This country has almost unlimited access to guns for everyone. Imagine that, in this fictional country, there was a mass shooting at least every single day, along with individual gun murders and gun suicides too many to count. Imagine the the mass shootings killed all sorts of people, including small children on a regular basis. Imagine that this were, say, the only country in which this happened, outside of countries involved in civil wars, genocides, etc. Now, imagine that a certain group of people in this fictional country argued that the solution was for even more people to own guns. Would that sound reasonable to you?
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 4 minutes later[^][v]#1,174,617
Imagine that there were a hypothetical country with almost unlimted access to guns for everyone. Imagine that in this fictional country, the only gun violence was suicide. Now imagine further that there was another hypothetical country which had almost unlimited access to guns yet had large amounts of homicide, including those involving small children. Now suppose there were a large number of people that insisted that access to guns was solely responsible for the problems of the second country and that these people remained silent when confronted with the facts about the first hypothetical country and doubled down on their claims. Would this sound reasonable to you?
Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 8 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,174,621
@previous (A)
I wouldn't say it sounds unreasonable. I wouldn't say it sounds reasonable either. I'd say the link when argued in either direction sounds unsupported by current evidence. Your turn.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 4 minutes later, 19 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,174,629
@previous (B)
Like homicide, it's actually down quite a lot from what it was a few decades ago. It's even more of a drop when you look at the per-capita figures. You can now walk away from a suicide attempt that would have been fatal 50 or 60 years ago.
Anonymous B triple-posted this 3 years ago, 12 minutes later, 46 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,174,639
Imagine there were a hypothetical continent with a large number of people from a particular set of racial groups. Imagine that this fictional continent was the poorest, most unstable, and violent on earth and had a civil war at least every single day, along with individual uprisings, genocides, and murders too many to count. Imagine these wars killed all sorts of people, including small children on a regular basis. Imagine that this were, say, the only continent in which this happened. Now, imagine that a certain group of people argued that encouraging the importation of more of these racial groups into any particular country or continent was the solution. Would that sound reasonable to you?