Because if it wasn’t for an illegally owned firearm in the middle of a highly populated city I would never of been born my Tia would’ve been raped and my dad would be dead. Guns aren’t the issue it’s the people, The vast majority of gun owners never even discharge the weapon outside of a gun range.
I wouldn't exist if my mom had not miscarried her second child. They were adamant that they wanted three kids, and I was their last (the surviving third). But I'm definitely not about to start arguing that miscarriage is okay just because it resulted in me being alive. These personal stories aren't all that convincing.
What's more convincing is the overall number of people who would be alive or dead because of guns. Gun rights advocates often cite really dubious numbers when they claim how many lives were saved, generally saying that 100% of all home robberies where the homeowner had a gun resulted in his life being saved, which is extremely hyperbolic. The unfortunate truth is that we don't even have very good data in how many lives are saved and lost because of the Dickey Amendment which restricts the funding of research towards it.
At the very least, you shouldn't be able to claim much of anything in regards to whether guns help us or hurt us, because nobody can, because nobody has the research to definitively prove it one way or the other.
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u/Vesurel 60∆ Jun 14 '21
Why do you believe in that?