2aguy
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It doesn't. There is currently no system for people to temporarily and voluntarily hand in their guns for safekeeping if they are suicidal.
It is the actual reason why a lower proportion of their homicides are committed with guns.
It shouldn't be a surprise. Countries with fewer guns have a lower percentage of their homicides committed with guns.
Strong social safety nets are not magic.
They have strong social safety nets, which reduce poverty, which reduces crime rates including homicides.
Not at all. Their strong social safety nets reduce the number of homicides that occur there.
Because their strong social safety nets reduce poverty, and thus reduce their crime rates.
We don't have a strong social safety net.
No. I think the French have a strong social safety net.
True. But a bomb still would have worked had he not had access to guns.
Note also that he was only able to kill as many as he did because he used bump stocks, which are now illegal (although the Supreme Court has yet to rule on the Constitutionally of that illegality).
Without bump stocks he would not have been able to harm nearly as many as he did.
True. But a truck still would have worked had he not had access to guns.
And again, he would not have been able to do it with guns without bump stocks.
Check again. Such massacres do occur in those countries:
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2016 Nice truck attack - Wikipedia
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France………increasing gun violence…….
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Three dead in Marseille shootout: 'guns are too easy to buy' says mayor
A police investigation is underway after two people were shot dead, and a third burnt alive on Saturday evening in the southern French city of Marseille. It's the fourth death linked to gun violence this…
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