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Originally Posted by YeOldeCurmudgeon
The problem is that our culture is suffering from severe mental illness. You combine that with easy access to guns and this is what you get. No, it's not just the guns and it's not just the mental health problem. But combine those two and it's like the synergistic effect, and we have this explosion of gun violence. Yes, we need better mental health and yes we need more gun control.
To use Chicago as an example of gun control not working is an outlier and a problem with social conditions there. If you look across the board at other nations with strict gun control, it does work. The fact that we don't follow their example is a sign of cultural mental illness.
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Really? Then how about Brazil? Pretty bad "social conditions" there, wouldn't you say? But when Bolsonaro ended Brazil's gun ban, murders dropped TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT! Turns out, murderers aren't so murderous when their victims are armed!
Houston and Dallas/Ft Worth are each nearly the same size as Chicago, with the same inner-city populations, and even run by left-wing politicians. But no gun bans. And they each suffer less than a quarter of the gun crime as "gun free" Chicago.
How many examples do you need? How many times must we run the same stupid experiment before we admit that theory doesn't equal facts?
Hey, I have an idea! Instead of banning guns, why don't we go back to the good old days, when we used to ban criminals and lunatics?