• dx1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve got no horse in this race, but I’ll tell you, the amount of time people spend fixating on AR-15s, when rifles in general (including AR-15s) are only responsible for 3% of gun deaths…it really doesn’t give the impression that people are in command of the facts. And it doesn’t seem like pretty much any characteristic of a gun being effective for a mass shooting doesn’t also carry over to the gun being effective for self-defense against more than a single person. Or even a single person, for that matter. I feel like people just kind of dug their trenches on this one and nobody’s really thinking too hard about it.

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      1 year ago

      What’s a good reason why anyone needs one of these killing devices

      Nukes are also incredibly safe you look at the total amount out there and the percentage that actually blow up on cities