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>Gun proliferation, of course, results in more shootings,
it doesn't. there is no relationship between gun ownership rates and murder rates on a state by state or nation by nation level.
>thus this stab spree could instead have been a 20+ american style massacre -
fewer than 100 Americans die in mass shooting each year. vs 13,000 Americans dying of aids each year, but I bet you love sodomy
>but surely society can reach some perfect middle ground, where only the most sane, good, skilled, vetted, upstanding citizens openly carry,
may issue literally only results in the rich and politically connected having guns and everyone else being fucked. That is why its illegal in the US.
>where criminal possession of firearms is made as extinct as reasonably possible.
governments don't care about criminal possession of firearms. they want to stop legal possession of firearms only. It isn't about murders, it is about preventing revolutions. Bongland's first major gun control laws were a response to the russian revolution and the end of WWI meaning a bunch of vets were coming back with training.
>How does humanity reach that point? What structure of law enables that? How can you ensure and maybe even incentivize your good people can defend themselves and their loved ones, instead of fleeing like prey from some pathetic wannabe predator, whose only superiority is in the surprise of ambush, in taking advantage of an undefended populace? Why should those aussies have had to rely upon that police officer? Why should a mother not be able to defend her offspring properly? Just a little .22 pistol would likely have been enough. Defend yourselves, Aussies!
because the goal is to make sure you can't defend yourself from the government. literally always has been. which is why gun control laws only started showing up after the russian revolution

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