Gun deaths vs other deaths, redux

Snow96 · 2020-02-10T03:54:35.498Z

We all know where this thread is going to go.

Guns bad.
Guns kill people
Guns need to be banned.

ImRightYoureWrong · 2020-02-10T03:55:21.012Z

Snow96:

We all know where this thread is going to go.

Guns bad.
Guns kill people
Guns need to be banned.

Well, we definitely didn’t expect to talk about the dangers of power cords

Snow96 · 2020-02-10T03:57:47.468Z

ImRightYoureWrong:

Well, we definitely didn’t expect to talk about the dangers of power cords

You sure about that?

AlexMcAlpine:

Here, I’d like to post news articles of people killed via gun, versus those killed by other means.

It’s the means by witch a person was killed (you know rp puts up an article about guns and then mentions other means).

Looke like I’m right on topic to me.

ImRightYoureWrong · 2020-02-10T04:01:12.774Z

Snow96:

Looke like I’m right on topic to me.

Just because something is technically on topic doesn’t mean it’s expected or meaningful.

I could probably find an article of someone dying from a rare form of bacteria. What, you want to ban bacteria?

See. On topic. Meaningless.

Snow96 · 2020-02-10T04:03:00.845Z

ImRightYoureWrong:

I could probably find an article of someone dying from a rare form of bacteria. What, you want to ban bacteria?

Was the rare bacteria purposly given to the person who died?

If not, then it’s not what this thread is about.

Try again.

ImRightYoureWrong · 2020-02-10T04:05:15.150Z

Snow96:

Was the rare bacteria purposly given to the person who died?

If not, then it’s not what this thread is about.

Try again.

Wrong. OP never mentions purpose or more than one person’s involvement.

AlexMcAlpine:

Here, I’d like to post news articles of people killed via gun, versus those killed by other means.

Now back on topic. Tell us how and why we should be concerned about power cords

Snow96 · 2020-02-10T04:06:33.980Z

ImRightYoureWrong:

Wrong. OP never mentions purpose or more than one person’s involvement.

If you go by that then, the larges killer of all is illness and natural death.

Not sure how we are going to stop that.

ImRightYoureWrong · 2020-02-10T04:07:45.630Z

Snow96:

If you go by that then, the larges killer of all is illness and natural death.

Not sure how we are going to stop that.

Oh ok. It’s almost like you’re saying some examples are meaningless to the thread topic.

Snow96 · 2020-02-10T04:08:18.469Z

The topic is clear. Trust me. My examples are right on topic.

ImRightYoureWrong · 2020-02-10T04:10:47.436Z

Yugely on topic. Maybe the most on topic of any posts ever.

ImRightYoureWrong · 2020-02-10T04:12:09.715Z

How many people die from power cord strangulation a year?

Snow96 · 2020-02-10T04:18:38.569Z

Couldn’t tell you.

ImRightYoureWrong · 2020-02-10T04:19:42.860Z

Shouldn’t that be a central question to the significance of focus on one weapon vs the other?

Snow96 · 2020-02-10T04:20:21.275Z

Nope.

ImRightYoureWrong · 2020-02-10T04:23:16.659Z

Snow96:

Nope.

Ok. If the number of occurrences of murder by a specific tool is irrelevant to the degree on which we focus on the said tool, why are guns, specifically, so important to you? You don’t need a gun to stop a power cord strangler.

Snow96 · 2020-02-10T04:25:12.178Z

ImRightYoureWrong:

why are guns, specifically, so important to you?

I’ll start the jepardy theme for you to guess.

ImRightYoureWrong · 2020-02-10T04:27:44.252Z

Snow96:

I’ll start the jepardy theme for you to guess.

Looks like you’re playing it for yourself.

It’s almost like you’re just about to admit that the high occurrence of gun violence is due to the efficacy of such tooling, and that given both its efficacy and rate of usage, it is better to focus our limited public resources on gun violence rather than, say, power cord strangulations

WildRose · 2020-02-10T07:22:00.599Z

We have between 1.5-2.5 million lawful defensive gun uses in the country each year compared to around 9,000 unlawful homicides.

If you really were serious about going with the numbers obviously far more good than harm is done with firearms each year in the US.

Smyrna · 2020-02-10T11:47:41.081Z

Bullying should be eradicated…I agree.

WuWei · 2020-02-10T11:51:05.773Z

ImRightYoureWrong:

is due to the efficacy of such tooling

Tooling, while pretty, does not make a gun more efficient.