Originally Posted By: Mithus
Criminals here use automatic rifles, law abiding citzens here just killthemselves on banal situations with discussion and fights that could be avoided if they do not have a weapon a close hand. I'm not going further because our reality is different from USA and Europe reality.
You're saying, if only angry folks didn't have ready access to guns, surely they'd never think to pick up a knife, or a baseball bat, or a brick... Come on Mithus, that's just silly. If a person is angry enough to shoot someone then they are angry enough to beat them to death. You cannot seriously blame the gun for those deaths.

While the consequences of your society may be more severe in Brazil, I do not think that you can say your reality is different than ours. Reality is not subjective. That argument seems more like an excuse not to think about the issue.

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