Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 hours agoAustria to tighten gun laws after recent school shooting. Applying for a gun license will require taking a serious psychological test. There will be a "cooling off phase" after ordering a weapon.www.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1310arrow-down13cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
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minus-squarePowerCrazy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 hours ago🙄 In which we equate Nuclear weapons with individual arms. It’s the mental equivalent of assuming Communism means you have to share your tooth brush.
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoMy point is there is clearly a limit to how many people a weapon can kill before no sane person would allow people to possess it. Apparently, for you this number is greater than 61 deaths per weapon, seeing as this is the number of people killed in the Las Vegas Mass Shooting. So, which is it? 100? 1000? 1 million? When is a weapon too dangerous to be available commonplace in your opinion?
minus-squarePowerCrazy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoNo one except liberals attempts to classify individual arms based on some inconsistent and dubious concepts of “magnitude of lethality” that is related to the prowess of a user wielding such a weapon.
🙄 In which we equate Nuclear weapons with individual arms. It’s the mental equivalent of assuming Communism means you have to share your tooth brush.
My point is there is clearly a limit to how many people a weapon can kill before no sane person would allow people to possess it.
Apparently, for you this number is greater than 61 deaths per weapon, seeing as this is the number of people killed in the Las Vegas Mass Shooting.
So, which is it? 100? 1000? 1 million? When is a weapon too dangerous to be available commonplace in your opinion?
No one except liberals attempts to classify individual arms based on some inconsistent and dubious concepts of “magnitude of lethality” that is related to the prowess of a user wielding such a weapon.