“Gun grabbing.”

This is exactly what I mean. You sincerely think using an extremely childish, loaded term like that, while refusing to address the actual science on the matter doesn’t show everyone that I’m right, and you have literally no arguments, thereby proving my point that there is literally no scientific evidence to support your side of the argument. None. Zip. Nada. Zilch.

You’re like a Flat Earther, an anti-vaxxer, a creationist or other some such deluded person. That’s not an insult. It’s just literally what “delusional” means. You can see the truth, you can understand it, but you refuse to believe it in favour of things that are completely imaginary.

Gun control works as surely as antibiotics do. No-one’s coming to “grab your guns” if America instills actual, reasonable gun regulation. I’m from Finland, we’re in the top10 for gun ownership in the world, but there’s practically no gun crime at all. There is, of course, but in the same sense that there is risk involved when you get your wisdom teeth removed. I’m from a rural area. I shot my first guns when I was 12. An officer’s pistol from WWII (my great-grandfather’s), a 12-gauge, a Finnish AK variant (RK62, the one the Israelis based their Galil receivers on, their first ones even being manufactured by Valmet). I had a lot of hunter friends growing up, and I literally slept* next to a gun rack. My dad was a hunter, and my older brother is as well. I then served my conscription for a year when I was 20, in the Finnish army, being an NCO. I love guns. They’re fun as fuck.

They’re also dangerous as fuck. Which is why you need good regulation. Finland has a problem with people fighting when drunk. Without proper gun control, a lot of those folks would be armed and the murder rate would skyrocket and the safety of the society would plummet. In the long run, that is.

And which is why I never had to be afraid of guns despite having driven a taxi since 2007. And having driven a lot of face tattooed bikers drunk as fuck screaming “we’re about to go kill people.”

I’ve hustled drugs more than a decade and never had to be afraid of someone having a gun.

That’s why for instance one of my friends who can’t handle his drink and always gets into fights only had a gun license for a year or two, before he got several charges for assaults and then it took a year or so for the cops to take his gun permits away. (No, not his guns, no-one was “grabbing his guns”, he took them to the police himself, because not to do so would’ve meant not being law-abiding.)

I know black markets and criminals very well, and the most childish thing about your arguement is the fact that you’re ignoring the laws of basic supply and demand. When you restrict legal markets, you affect black markets. Finding a gun here is extremely hard, and when you do find one, it’s extremely expensive. You can get some starter pistols bored into .22’s, but that’s about it. And even those will costs hundreds and hundreds.

How many of the guns sold illegally in the US originated as legal weapons, hmm?

Oh, why did I even bother writing all this, as you won’t want to actually discuss the issue. You’ll just regurgitate the same bullshit NRA propaganda while ignoring reality. Pfff…