Well unfortunately, there’s already 600,000,000 with no registry to know where, so those are staying. That puts your options at either protect yourself should you ever have to (hopefully, and likely, you never will) or don’t and just hope it all works out. Sure, in countries where there already aren’t guns I’m not saying they should get more, but they’re here to stay.

And I know that if I were in a mass shooting and had to try and stop the shooter, I’d rather have one than not, idk about you.

No u lol.

You literally said it yourself bud, you don’t believe in using flashlights so you don’t shoot someone innocent, because you’re “real alpha men up in alaska, ooooooo.” You literally used patriarchal toxic masculinity to mock basic safety procedures lmao, you have no credibility here.

Says the guy who rails against basic safety principles? As if, lmao.

No don’t burn it you fools! You’ve set him free, he’s no longer bound to the hat!

That mouse is adorable! I just wish they showed pictures of all of the cool new/rare animals, I want to see the spiny mouse and the squirrel! At least they had the salamander though.

Not a valid BIN/IIN.

The thread has gotten so small my reply button disappeared, so I’m definitely not replying any further.

You dropped your argument btw.

Idk sounds about right to me, 8%-8%. What do you expect, 8% of people carry so 50% of people have a gun on them at any given time? No, more like 8% of people have one at any given time, therefore 8% chance. Your figures seem off to me considering there are none, “nuh uh” isn’t a rebuttal.

Yes I’d imagine in other countries where no bystanders have guns shootings and stabbings are stopped less by bystanders with guns, because they don’t have them. We can see this play out in cases like the one in the UK where the shooter was stopped with a mammoth tusk ripped from a nearby museum. Frankly this seems to support my hypothesis that you have to have a gun to be able to use a gun.

Lol ad hominem, the mark of someone who “won” an argument.

Thanks for playing dingus.

I never said it’s good when someone gets shot either, you’re sure a fan of putting words in other people’s mouth.

What is good is self defense, what’s not good is forgoing self defense in a futile attempt to rid a country of 600,000,000 guns, of their guns. Why don’t you want women to be able to protect themselves from attacks? They are the fastest growing group of new owners for half a decade now, right above POC which is the second fastest, but you don’t want women and POC to have their rights. (See, we can both play these stupid games.)

In fact since you like numbers, why don’t we compare defensive gun uses to gun deaths yearly and see which one is more? I have all the figures if you’re too lazy to look them up because I’ve already told them to 100 people just like you who are against defending yourself, but of course you’ll just reject that too since it doesn’t fit your narrow worldview hmm?

By the way are you aware of what the words “shut up and go away” mean? Do I need to use a different language? Cállate verga.

Well technically it would also solve that problem, but I meant “mental help for wishing death against those you dislike” help, they’re different “helps.”

No I mean I’m sorry to hear it in a general “it sucks anyone should have to go through that” way, I don’t have to like you, you suck.

I never said “die,” I said “fuck off.” As in “go away and stop talking to me.” Are you really this dense or are you fucking with me?

What are you even on about? I never said I fantasize about mass shootings, I’m a hair away from reporting you which I do not do usually.

If you’re questioning “burglar or wife” because “dark?” Yeah, “flashlight” solves that real fast. You don’t think a flashlight will help you see whether someone is your wife or a burglar? Your wife look like a lot of burglars or something? Why are you so against gun safety lmao? It’s really strange tbh.

No u lol, you’re the one advocating against best safety practices for cool alpha internet points, seek help.

Well we could count the times where nobody intervened, but that doesn’t negate that “that means there was nobody there with a gun to intervene” either. (And I was born snarky tyvm.)

Sure they’re relevant, it’s just that in most of them there was no gun other than the one held by the shooter (who in many cases wasn’t allowed to bring it either) and nobody stopped him with their judo.

Of the ones that did get stopped, 34% were stopped with something that is only 8% likely to be there. That’s still significant numbers whether you like it or not.

Even still, 22 is 9% of 249, that’s still at least consistent with “likelihood gun there” based on 8% of carriers. I’d say it further supports my guess that “when not, it because gun not there.”

And none of this even takes into account the propensity to choose gun free zones as targets further lessening the likelihood of armed response, but I think I’ll mention that now.

Finally, it’s a bit out of the scope of mass shootings alone but as for defensive gun use per year Harvard estimates it at 100,000/yr, which is more than our gun deaths including suicide yearly. That is also worth mention as while mass shootings themselves are also rare, defense with firearms happens more than death with firearms yearly as a whole.

I’m not claiming “America eradicated gun crime” like you are for japan lol. I’m claiming that “just because someone owns guns doesn’t mean they’ll shoot theirwifechildrenyaddayadda.”

No? Ideally we would just stop talking now and that’s that. I don’t hope you die or kill someone just because I don’t like you, if you wish that on people just because you don’t like them you seriously need help.

Although I suppose I didn’t consider medically assisted, I’m not opposed to that, as much as I’m not a fan of you I’m sorry to hear it.

In any case fuck off.

Then what percent of 64 is 42 and 22?

Tell that to Shinzo Abe.

Japan as a whole is largely uninterested in firearms: Graduating police officers most often choose judo and kendo over firearms training. The country’s culture doesn’t have a history of widespread gun ownership by citizens. Instead, historic influence have made weapons to be seen as “the mark of the rulers, not the ruled”.[3]

Oh but yeah no clue why I would say they culturally prefer blades. Is there any historical context to the “mark of the rulers” bit I wonder?

Gun and sword control started in Japan as early as the late 16th century under Toyotomi Hideyoshi in order to disarm peasants and control uprisings.

Oh. Well that’s cool.

We’ve been done, you just refuse to shut up when someone politely declines your silly bullshit lol.

“Depending on the laws…” is it only legal to kill yourself or others with a gas leak in Canada? You planning on starting a gas leak? Not sure I want to know what you mean by that weird ass sentence but if you’re experiencing suicidal or homicidal ideation of some sort please seek help, it’s never the option you should take. I don’t like you and don’t let me know, but someone does I’m sure and I hope you get the help you need.

Tbh with their cultural aversion to firearms in favor of blades, I doubt this claim as well. In any case they’re doing just fine killing themselves without them.

I wouldn’t blame the guns, I’d blame the murderer. If your entire family was hacked up tomorrow would you blame Cutco? Have fun with that.