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To expand on this... there are virtually zero intentional homicides at gun ranges and gun shows where hundreds of weapons are present.

Also all gun laws are discriminatory toward the poor and minorities disproportionately.

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I can't agree more. Simply put, even if you do manage to get a thumb up from the Sheriff in California for a permit, the fees really are a tax on the poor as well.

Yet mass shootings and gun violence only seem to occur overwhelmingly in countries where there is less friction to buy weapons (like the US).

That depends on what you define as a "mass shooting". Some of the statistics turn out to be playing a game of sleight of hand, defining events that really shouldn't be classified as a mass shooting as a mass shooting. Most of that talk is to get the peanut gallery up in a tizzy about a problem that is far less dire than suggested.

Here's a link to some data being combed from 2019.

https://www.reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners/comments/cmzzlc/25...

Also, there are instances where suicides are being tagged as mass shootings as well.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-we-prevent-mass-sho...

Frankly, I think we could stand to increase education around the issue of guns, mental health, and personal responsibility, rather than trying to reflexively legislate away access to firearms, which primarily affects law abiding citizens and not criminals.

Just some food for thought.

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