Mystree_Machine Authors Dr. Benjamin Braddock
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After tragedy, Americans like to pretend we’re in Europe and could just legislate this away, when in reality we‘re a country in the Americas built on Indian burial grounds and haunted by Olmec corn demons
Banning guns here wouldn’t transform us into Germany, but into Brazil, which became #1 firearm homicide country in the world *after* banning guns (mass disarmament of non-criminal citizens, criminals kept their guns).
Brazil is instructive because there were already a lot of guns there when the ban went into place. Gun bans only have an effect when there’s already a low rate of ownership. In Brazil it just got worse. There are more guns than people in the US. Restrictions won’t do anything.
Radical idea but perhaps we should focus on creating fewer mass murderers in the first place. This stuff happens in America so much because America is one of the most uniquely high-stress places on earth.
https://t.co/o5882s1TjB
Banning guns here wouldn’t transform us into Germany, but into Brazil, which became #1 firearm homicide country in the world *after* banning guns (mass disarmament of non-criminal citizens, criminals kept their guns).
Brazil is instructive because there were already a lot of guns there when the ban went into place. Gun bans only have an effect when there’s already a low rate of ownership. In Brazil it just got worse. There are more guns than people in the US. Restrictions won’t do anything.
Radical idea but perhaps we should focus on creating fewer mass murderers in the first place. This stuff happens in America so much because America is one of the most uniquely high-stress places on earth.
https://t.co/o5882s1TjB
