• BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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        5 个月前

        Nice theory, but owning a gun makes you less safe, not more. You are way more likely to be hurt by your own gun than successfully using it to defend yourself.

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            5 个月前

            It has nothing to do with circumstances, it’s plain statistics. Look up the numbers.

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              5 个月前

              your statistics don’t know who i live with, who lives next door, or how corrupt my government is. and, as samuel clemons said, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.

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                5 个月前

                What is it with Americans that they seem so be so afraid all the time. You see danger everywhere. Life now is safer than it has ever been in the history of humanity.

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                  5 个月前

                  there are more slaves now than ever in history. there are more prisoners, more prisons, more cartels, more police (but i repeat myself). i won’t tell you how you may keep yourself safe. please return the courtesy.

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                    5 个月前

                    All of those things are because there are way more humans today than ever in absolute numbers. The percentage of people who die a violent death has never been as low as it is now, and that includes people dying in war.

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                    5 个月前

                    So enlighten me.

                    How many people do you need to kill in self defence, in an average week?