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  • If I was carrying and there was an active shooter, I sure as hell would run or hide before fighting.

    You don’t know who the active shooter actually is. Maybe the guy you saw with a gun is a plainclothes or off duty cop who is responding to the actual active shooter. Maybe there is more than one shooter, and confronting the one you see makes you a target for the one you don’t. Maybe the cops find you after shooting the active shooter, and assume you are the perpetrator.

    For clarification, I don’t carry a gun, I just used myself as an example to simplify the text.



  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldOptical illusion
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    11 days ago

    I get the point the comic is trying to make, but saying that more guns means more people die from guns isn’t really a “gotcha”… In places with fewer guns, fewer people are using guns to do their murderings.

    I’d be more interested in a graph that shows total murders per capita compared to gun ownership per capita.

    Before I get dog-piled, I’d like to add that I know that there are too many guns in the US, and the process to buy a firearm is surprisingly lax. I do think there is a relationship between gun ownership and the murder rates, and the fact that most school shootings don’t even make the news anymore (and if they do, it’s for less than a day) indicates that the frogs have been completely boiled at this point.