Allow me to preface this post by pointing out that I am well aware there are millions of responsible gun owners out there. Sadly, there don’t appear to be many on Twitter, as the following demonstrate:
First up…
Your car is a deadly weapon so ban it and get rid of it so you don't kill anyone with it buy a horse or bike or just walk everywhere. It's not the gun but the person using it that's bad. Crminals & murdering nuts don't care about gun laws.
— J. N. Buck (@TerranEmpire) March 8, 2018
I have lost track of the number of times I’ve dealt with this argument. Yes, other things can be used as murder weapons – but guns are designed for this purpose.
There are plenty of reasons as to why #guncontrol fails, but one reason is most gun owners realize that the "common sense" solutions discussed today are just a ban on all semi-automatic firearms. #DefendTheSecond #2A #NRA https://t.co/J8KLjfhooo
— NRA (@NRA) March 8, 2018
Straight from the source as it were – gun control tends to fail when it’s non-existent, but it’s working in the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany and Japan, to name but a few places.
https://twitter.com/mommasew/status/971830094800019456?s=21
Again with the false equivalence. Yes, people will always (sadly) seek to kill other people – it’s a lot easier with a weapon specifically designed to do so – hence why two thirds of US homicides involve firearms.
A gun is as good or as bad as the person using it…#2A #2ADefenders #IAmTheNRA pic.twitter.com/geaxkvwpS8
— ColoradoGirl (@ColoradoGirl2A) March 6, 2018
A gun is not like an axe or a shovel – that’s simply moronic.
https://twitter.com/goz_1911/status/971014002288492544?s=21
Oddly enough, none of this has come to pass here in the UK, or France, or Japan, or in numerous other countries that have introduced gun control measures. It’s also a wild conflation (yet again) that control somehow = ban. It doesn’t.
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… I can’t work out of this is a genuine comment or a spam comment, given the writing style.