@master_jimbo@DanielOrange77@jl48211 The statistics he provided are more than likely correct.
What isn't mentioned is most of those are suicides and gang x gang violence. The latter of which is mostly, if not entirely illegally owned guns.
@kneefelix@DanielOrange77@jl48211 Yes, they made a conscious decision to kill, you are not wrong there. My argument is that said decision to kill is a sign of poor mental health. I'm not saying they were "too sick to know any better". Such a statement wouldn't even make sense.
@DanielOrange77@jl48211 I'm not gonna play into arguing over statistics. I'm gonna point out the fact that you completely ignored the fact that the root cause of violence is mental health.
Get people right in the head and you eliminate the violence.
Guns aren't the issue, it's the people holding them
@DanielOrange77@jl48211 In 2024 there have been over 50k stabbings. Removal of a weapon does not eliminate murder, it just changes the preferred tool.
Don't remove guns, remove mental illness.