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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, look, an ad hominem. Cool.

Firearms are not, themselves, the problem, despite however much people want to treat them as though they are. Likewise, in the UK, kitchen knives and scissors are not the problem, although the gov't treats them as though they are.

Guns, knives, sticks, cars, and yes, even explosives, are tools. If you eliminate the causes that turn people to violence, you eliminate the use of the tools to commit violent acts. But no one is willing to discuss violence as a result of things like economic warfare or systemic racism; they insist that violence exists because the tools used in violent acts exist.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The discussion was never about the guns, dumdum (this, btw, is an ad hominem)

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 49 minutes ago

This is like saying guns don’t kill people

This you?