As I always say - the gun isn’t the problem. Someone waking up one morning and going “gee I’d like to kill a lot of people today” is the problem. That’s a cultural and mental health issue.
I disagree with your worldview in this case, but want to let you know that I respect you for having a well formed and reasonably consistent opinion. I only wish that everyone else who voted took the time to think things through half so thoroughly - the world would likely be a much more functional place.
Illogical. Gun ownership is truely a significant part of the problem. Countries with low gun ownership rates have measurably low rates of deaths by guns. Your meme needs to be eradicated.
"Among developed nations, the US is far and away the most homicidal — in large part due to the easy access many Americans have to firearms." — https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/2/16399418/u...
Additionally, the international comparisons ignore the fact that the US, like the rest of the new world, has long had higher homicide rates than Europe, even before gun control and even back when guns were prevalent in Europe.
About 43% of American households own a gun. Norway, France, and Canada are all above 25%. Finland is at 50%. https://www.ippnw.org/pdf/mgs/7-1-cukier.pdf. Articles like those on Vox tend to focus on number of guns (Americans tend to stockpile them), but the figures for percentage of households with access to a gun aren’t as radically different in the US as in some other countries.
But homicide rates in the US are radically different, and always have been. The homicide rate in France has been 1 per 100,000 or less since the 1940s. The lowest the homicide rate in the US has ever been is 4-5x higher than that.
If there were no guns in the US, there would be zero gun homicides.
Therefore guns are part of the problem.
Any statement that says guns are not part of the problem must be incorrect.
If there was no food or water in the US then there would also be zero gun homicides. Food and water are obviously not a cause or related to a problem but the logic is exactly the same.