m14brony's status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-16 22:41:39 UTC
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@awl We're still dealing with positions being distorted here. An assault rifle wasn't even used in this shooting; a good deal of the people in the media clamoring for more stringent gun control don't even know what they are talking about. The problem is that their arguments are more predicated on emotion than fact. There isn't even clear-cut, conclusive evidence linking more relaxed gun control with violent crime and such; the problems we see in the USA are not as prevalent in the Czech Republic or Switzerland, which are on the more lenient side of gun control legislation compared to say, Japan. Japan has very strict gun control and low violent crime, but France's strict gun control didn't prevent an even more lethal shooting than Orlando from happening. Nor did Norway's prevent Anders Behring Breivik from killing and injuring more than Omar Marteen.
