B0ycey wrote:Being I never mentioned suicide figures until you did to something I wrote about terrorism is evidence enough you made a strawman. But I see you didn't respond to the point I made about the topic FYI.
But sure, ignore gun prevention also prevents death by guns. It is what an NRA shill would do.
My argument against gun control as a preventive is the same whether we're considering terrorism, or mass shootings, or homicide, or suicide: we should stop worrying about the guns and start addressing the underlying problems that are engendering all this violence and death. Gun control will prevent gun deaths but it will not stop the violence. Gun control is a liberal solution which, like all liberal solutions, does not address the actual problem. I'm not giving up my liberty just because a bunch of liberals don't want to stop being assholes.
If we want to curb the violence then we need to being doing things like ending the drug war, abolishing the industrial education system, ending predatory economics and predatory foreign policy, providing people with healthcare and effective mental health services(rather than just medicating everyone and their mother), cleaning up our degenerate nihilistic consumer culture, expanding and deepening democracy so people aren't so marginalized and voiceless that they feel violence is the only way they can be heard, all the things we should be doing anyway even if we didn't have a major problem with violence and killing.
There are always a million and one non-asshole ways to address any problem but liberals are never interested in any of those because they don't actually give a fuck about these problems, their only interest is increasing their own power and control over society. Liberals are always just king shitbirds about everything.