The Legend wrote:All that being said, I still look at people saying that the issue is purely or almost entirely about gun control, kinda like somebody going to a person with a tumor in their brain and saying, 'just take some tylenol for your headaches. It entirely misses the point.
I agree a lot with this, above someone compared German statistics to American statistics in terms of shootings, it's a flawed logic. Just because you inflate the size of Germany to be the same size as America in terms of population doesn't really give a fair comparison. America is really a huge place, people in other countries always ask me how long it would take for me to drive to New York, or to California, and are baffled, completely blown away to hear it would take a week, or over 6 hours. The distance is extremely relevant to this data because America is really more like a couple countries unified under the same name.
Given our reputation as land of opportunity (or was) we have radically different cultures and beliefs living all over the place. A small densely populated country compared to America is no comparison.
Gun laws, I don't care, I have guns, I go to shooting ranges, I don't hunt. I could live without them, but depending where you live, in America, having no guns or more strict gun laws, could impede and radically change some lifestyles. Most of use don't need them, but a fair mount do. I wouldn't be surprised in other countries, given more rural areas, people there have some means of self-protection, guns or not.