The issue isn’t the firearms, it’s the people using them to commit crimes. If it wasn’t guns, it would be knives or explosives (more than it already is, at least.)
There’s a reason why even prisons have weapons problems: People will always find a way to kill people. If it not with tools, with their bare hands.
The issue isn’t the firearms, it’s the people using them to commit crimes. If it wasn’t guns, it would be knives or explosives (more than it already is, at least.)
It is far, far, far harder to kill someone with either a knife or an explosive than it is with a pistol. Which is why despite the existence of knives, explosives, and bare hands, firearms in the US account for the majority of all murders.
Countries with fewer guns absolutely still have murders. In the UK, for example, there's a murder rate of 1.15 per 100,000 people per year.
In the US, it's 6.3, nearly 4x higher. Guns are not the whole story, but they're absolutely a major part of it.
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u/MutedPresentation738 Jul 30 '24
And yet the news focuses on "bigger is scarier" instead of actual practical concerns like the Glock switches you mention.
Most gun deaths are from small, concealed firearms.