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It doesn't matter how permissive their gun laws are, nor how few mass shootings they have under them -- they have gun laws that are broadly agreed to be safe for the public.
This is true for every country in the world except America.
It doesn't matter if they are more permissive because their "culture" is less bloodthirsty or because their mental healthcare is better or they banned video games and doors. They have the social risk under control.
When it turns out they don't have the risks under control, such as following mass shootings in Australia and New Zealand, they change the laws.
They even loosen those laws occasionally to make things like hobby shooting at ranges more accessible.
None of that for America though! No matter how great the risks of their gun laws grow, no matter how clearly inappropriate they are for the current state of American society, the gun lobby demands that laws only get more dogshit.
So Republicans make it happen for $16 million a year and the pro-gun crowd cheer them on because they don't want to be mildly inconvenienced to save the lives of people they don't give a shit about.
So clearly you don't know about current gun laws in the US. You must be willfully ignorant to think that America does not have gun laws that are broadly accepted by the public
"Broadly agreed to be safe for the public" isn't the same thing as "broadly accepted by the public" but sure, I guess all the mass shootings, armed criminals and child suicides are just because you've made everyone so damn safe
Not what I said at all, try again
It's literally exactly what you said, verbatim. Are we really supposed to trust you with guns and gun laws?
Keep avoiding my point with your pedantry
Yes how dare I respond to the thing you said instead of the thing you didn't say. Maybe you should stick to the catchphrases the lobby gives you.