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It doesn't matter what percent misuse guns.
It most certainly does. The people who aren't committing gun violence, the 99.9+ percent of gun owners, have a voice in this too, and we aren't going away because you feel that we statistically don't matter.
The outcome is thousands of dead kids per year and tens of thousands of dead Americans.
Thousands of dead kids? You claim that repeatedly, but you never substantiate it. Why is that?
I don't care one iota if you're a safe gun user because your safe gun use - in fact 99% of gun owners safe gun usage - does exactly nothing to save the lives of all of those people.
I don't care that you don't care. You aren't the arbiter of anything here. Maybe I'll start donating to what ever irish pro-gun group I can find, and start posting screenshots of the receipts, and see if you appreciate me sticking my nose into your countries affairs as much as you seem to enjoy sticking your nose into the affairs of mine.
And self-defense... I now live in Ireland which is endlessly safer.
Bully for you.
My kids and kids all over the country have never even heard of a school shooting. They've never had to be taught how to shelter in place.
That's nice. My kids will never need ID to buy plastic utensils:
Taking away all guns removes the need for guns to protect against guns.
Taking away all the guns, leaves the old the infirm and the physically weak at a major disadvantage to those who aren't.
That's a fact.
Because until the gun violence epidemic in America is solved America as a country can not be trusted with guns.
There is no 'epidemic' of gun violence. There are people, a tiny percentage of a percentage, making bad choices.
Nothing more, nothing less. Calling it an 'epidemic' is just canned anti-gun hyperbole intended to scaremonger.
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