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OftenBen · 3345 days ago · link · · parent · post: How often do mass shootings occur (in the US)? On average, *once a day*.
Nope. People who are committed to causing violence will do so. Getting rid of guns will produce a quantitative but not qualitative change in interpersonal violence. How much scarier would a series of well placed mustard gas bombs be than a kid with a handgun, or even an AR-15? Imagine entire schools filled with blinded, dead and dying kids rather than a few dozen at most. We can't agree in this country on the proper role of police, so I won't touch that one.Do we melt all the guns? maybe.
Do we arm a bunch of other people? probably not.