• force@lemmy.world
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    You can bump fire any gun without a bump stock or a trigger mechanism, on a lot of guns it’s stupid easy and you can do it without experience. It doesn’t turn it into a “fully automatic machine gun”. Someone with barely any firearm experience can take any pistol or rifle and be shown how to bump fire within like a minute. It has nothing to do with accessories, although things like those can make it a little easier.

    I’m a big advocate for better gun control, but what you’re implying is just dishonest, even if unintentionally.

    Posting that kind of stuff makes you sound like you have no idea what you’re talking about (the way you worded it just sounds cringey) which makes people less inclined to be influenced by what you say, and hurts support of gun regulation by convincing witnesses that everybody who likes gun control is misinformed.

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      Then you’ll have no issue with banning bumpstocks then eh? And other mechanisms that move this from skill based to technology based?

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        No. Because the whole point of guns is to equalize people regardless of skill. Normal people can’t spend their lives training, terrorists can.

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          “Everyone can kill people regardless of skill” seems much worse than 'only highly skilled people can". None of these shooters ever “spent their life training”.

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          Look man, I just want less gun violence in this country. And my solution is to ban guns. If you have a better idea I’m all ears.

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              These aren’t actual solutions. Taking aways all guns is a concrete step. We need concrete steps from the gun loving crowd.

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            It’s pretty easy to get guns in my country yet there’s still not much gun violence. Similarly a lot of the states with the most lax gun laws in the US have the least gun violence.

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        “I don’t care about guns deaths, just the guns that scare me the most”.

        Implying that a revolver isn’t used in crime to kill people is hilariously misinformed ignorance. More people every year are killed by revolvers, than a plastic semi auto rifle.