[changadera]

"Guns don't kill people..."

[bognition]

Not sure if you’re being coy or pushing the trope but you’re right guns don’t actually kill people. The bullets and blood loss tend to do that.

That said, denying people access to guns does result in fewer gun related fatalities.

[abc123abc123]

But note that this is deeply unethical and amounts to denying people the right to self-defense, and by extension, denying people the right to freedom.

The only thing that happens when guns are denied is the rise of corrupt and totalitarian politicians, and that the common man is either oppressed by them or by criminal gangs. Enter guns, and the common man can defend himself against both, which is a blessing.

Thankfully it is now possible to print your own guns and build one easily, so this will become less of an issue in the future, when everyone, if they want, can carry concealed guns.

[loloquwowndueo]

The fall didn’t kill him, it was the landing.

[vaylian]

Kitchen knives do

[blitzar]

"rappers do ..."

[Rebuff5007]

I like this response to poke a hole in the parent comment, but it is worth noting that smartphones and guns are different in a pretty massive way:

Smartphones can be useful and valuable in many ways separate from the ways they can be used harmfully. Guns exist only for physical violence (or to threaten physical violence).

[swiftcoder]

This is a fairly recent transition in gun use - it's not that long ago that their primary use was in feeding people (both through hunting, and through keeping predators away from livestock/crops)

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

> Guns exist only for physical violence

Skeet shooting? Targets? Most gun owners never kill anything.