• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Yes but we also avoid problems that other countries with gun bans have, such as massacres of civilians by military and police.

    It’s sort of a balancing act you see.

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        4 months ago

        Oh you must be thinking of the time they shot a student 70 years ago. No, I’m referring to events rightly called “massacres”. Not a trigger happy riot officer killing someone. I’m talking lining 20 people at a time up next to a ditch and shooting them all in the backs of the heads.

        Im talking about massacres. Killing events where 20 is a rounding error.

        Now I get it. Your teachers may have failed to teach you about human history. But we live in the age of informaron. You can look this stuff up.

        We haven’t had what Myanmar had recently.

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          No, I’m referring to events rightly called “massacres”

          Like so?

          Killing events where 20 is a rounding error.

          Goalposts status: moved.

          You can look this stuff up.

          I did. It’s how I learned about this stuff. But you, in the meantime, apparently think that

          trigger happy riot officer killing someone

          Is totally different and not at all a symptom of overall system. Cool. Don’t forget to keep your hands on the wheel in a traffic stop, lest an acorn falls.

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            4 months ago

            Okay so you reached back 40 years and found an event where the government made 250 people homeless and killed 6 people.

            Using a bombing raid.

            Let’s see what I can find in the other column …

            Oh look, a few weeks ago the government of Myanmar killed 30 civilians

            So by reaching back to May I was able to find a massacre, in a country with a civilian weapons ban, five times larger than the on you found by reaching back to 1985, in a country with an armed populace.

            Do you suppose they dropped bombs on these civilians?

            So far thar’s two data points. Shall we continue one for one comparing the massacres of unarmed populations to those of armed populations?