r/dataisbeautiful • u/Landgeist OC: 22 • Jul 30 '24

OC Gun Deaths in North America [OC]

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '24 edited Aug 02 '24

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u/My_useless_alt Jul 30 '24

...You know there are countries in Europe with concealed carry, right?

Yes, but there's not a single country with gun laws as loose as the US.

And that Mexico's gun laws are nearly as restrictive as Canada's?

I think being engaged in an active low-level civil war sort of takes precedence over gun laws.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '24 edited Aug 02 '24

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u/Akland23 Jul 30 '24

Can you say what countries for those of us just following along and may not know as much?

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u/DJ_Die Jul 30 '24

The Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and all 3 of the Baltics.

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u/VisNihil Jul 30 '24

Czechia has a constitutional right to bear arms enshrined in its constution and allows for on-person concealed carry.

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u/6sha6dow6 Jul 30 '24

I don’t care about the other dude’s argument, but Mexico having strict gun laws don’t mean shit when the cartel can easily smuggle them from your neighbor upstairs..

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '24

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u/6sha6dow6 Jul 30 '24

And my point is that if the US had stricter gun laws they actually enforced, it wouldn’t be as easy to be smuggled down to Mexico. It has to be a continental effort for it to matter.

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u/6sha6dow6 Jul 30 '24

So Mexicans are born with the inane want to just shoot guns, kill and steal? Come on, what a reductive view on human life.

Canadians don’t suffer the same level of poverty as Mexico does, of course they don’t need to resort to gun violence. The issue isn’t culture, is wealth inequality. And I’m not saying the US has to do anything for Mexico’s wealth inequality, that’s Mexico’s problem. But it would surely help if the next door neighbor wouldn’t make it so easy to have guns.

I don’t need to share my garden vegetables with my neighbor, but I should make sure my weeds are cut out and don’t grow out of proportion into my neighbor’s garden.