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    10 million were tortured and shoved into ovens and gas chambers in Germany. That blood is on the hands of gun control supporters.

    86 people were murdered and 434 injured with a rental truck in Nice, France. More than any other mass shooting in history. The tools are not the problem. Indiscriminate murder is incredibly easy and will remain so regardless of what laws you pass. The only thing you take away is the ability for individuals to defend themselves.

    Guns have been an American pastime for as long as America has been around and yet only in the last ~30 years did we begin to see a rise in crimes of this type.

    This guy was former military and it sounds like he was hallucinating. Better mental healthcare could have prevented this tragedy. Along with I’m sure a myriad of other, more difficult solutions.

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      A truck is not designed specifically to kill as many people as possible in as little time as possible. Most firearms are. This type of firearm certainly is.

      You can’t sit in a hotel room in Las Vegas, hundreds of yards from a crowd, and kill 60 people and wound more than 400 with a truck or a knife. Very different tools.

      And I really don’t care about your gun “pastime” or “rights.” I care about getting my kids safely home from school and how having 5-year-olds do active shooter drills. Insanity.

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        You can’t sit in a hotel room in Las Vegas, hundreds of yards from a crowd, and kill 60 people and wound more than 400 with a truck

        Car bomb detonated by remote control, IRA style

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        A truck is not designed specifically to kill as many people as possible in as little time as possible. Most firearms are. This type of firearm certainly is.

        And yet it does the job all the same. That’s the whole point.

        And I really don’t care about your gun “pastime” or “rights.”

        I’m sure it was intentional but you missed the point.

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          Did you even read my comment? Try throwing that truck from a hotel room in Vegas and see how many people it kills. It does not do the same job and it’s not designed to do the same job.

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            I don’t agree with Helen, but their point stands. The truck did complete the intended action of executing the 84 people all the same. That being said, there are more stop gaps for a reckless driver (bollards are everywhere in the US). Stopping someone with a loaded trigger is a lot harder. I think the France situation was exceptional and not a standard road rage incident/attack. What would need to happen to have a fair assessment is compare the per capita fatality from road rage incidents to armed attacks.

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              It happened in Berlin at the Breitscheidplatz in 2016 on a christmas fair too where 12 people were murdered by an islamist with a truck. Since these events I feel I’ve seen a lot more concrete roadblocks capable to stop trucks here in populated areas in european cities.

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            LOL your comment is completely ridiculous. You obviously don’t need to throw it from a hotel room, you can simply drive it down a road full of people.

            I have literally no idea what your point is.

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      A couple points.

      One: No armed militia is going to stop the US 7bn dollar military apparatus on home territory. Don’t bring up Vietnam. Don’t bring up Afghanistan. If you think gravy seals navy is anything compared to the Viet Cong you are deluded.

      Two: using the France terrorist road vehicle attack as a counter is disingenuous use of stats/numbers. You can’t compare a singular attack to the average gun based attacks in the US. What you would do -if you really cared to compare them- is take the average per capita road rage incident or vehicle based murders and compare them to the gun related mass shootings / deaths. You can control for many factors too (time frames, region, age, etc). Something about guns being readily available makes them more likely to be used. We have millions of people driving and only so many intentional terrorist attacks using vehicles.

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        One: No armed militia is going to stop the US 7bn dollar military apparatus on home territory.

        It’s a tired argument I’m not interested in taking up again, but the answer is yes, they can. The military didn’t drop bombs on Waco.

        You can’t compare a singular attack to the average gun based attacks in the US.

        I didn’t. I compared it to every mass shooting in the history of the country. The moral of the story (since you missed it) is that you can ban guns and it won’t stop people from just using something else when they want to hurt large groups of random people.

        Something about guns being readily available makes them more likely to be used.

        Which is precisely why “gun deaths” and “gun violence” is a terrible metric. Even if you could theoretically take them all away, they’d just use something else (like a rental truck). Notice a theme here?

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          Yes. The theme is your inability to understand stats. If cars, which are more readily available than guns are able to cause more damage every shooter would go for that but reality is guns are easier. Sure, if they’re determined they will find a way, but people tend to go for the easiest path. Deterrents tend to slow the process as studies have shown. That’s why looking at stats is so useful for understanding circumstances and deterrents. That’s if you really wanted to have an unbiased honest conversation.

          Waco is not serving your argument. Firstly, the military was not involved. Second, we’re talking 4 ATF agents lost compared to 76 adults. Soooo…I don’t see the relevance. The Xbox gravy seals is not going to live up to it’s expectations. Shit, is proud boys the best example of the 2a crowd because they look like they can’t run a mile either (that’s must my opinion though, maybe the photos are deceiving).

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            The theme is your inability to understand stats.

            …what stats? You mean stats of the most successful mass murders? I think that belongs to trucks and planes.

            If cars, which are more readily available than guns are able to cause more damage every shooter would go for that but reality is guns are easier.

            Guns are just what they see on TV. Lots of people use cars, bombs or whatever else. In the case of France they didn’t have guns, but it obviously didn’t stop them.

            Waco is not serving your argument. Firstly, the military was not involved.

            Uuuuhhh but that WAS my argument…

            Second, we’re talking 4 ATF agents lost compared to 76 adults

            It doesn’t matter. No one is keeping score. The point is they stood up for themselves and gave the ATF a fuckin’ helluva time. Wanna take a poll on how many armed citizens there are vs. ATF agents? Or even the entirety of the US military?

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              Yea the military was never involved. So it has nothing to do with my initial point. Buck and Chuck are not taking down the US army. I don’t know why we got sidetracked with it.

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                You’re the one who brought it up?

                The point is the military won’t be dropping bombs on its own people.

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                  The phone is ringing, it’s for you. Sounds like some miners in West Virginia from 1921 would like to talk to you.

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                  WACO negotiations took 53 days, but MOVE was given a day to leave before two bombs were dropped in the middle of rowhouses in Philadelphia 😂 arming yourself to discourage the government works way better when the government is already favorable to your cause.

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                  You’re so confident. Why? Even after I showed you ATF agents alone can suppress an insurrection before we even bring in armed guards.

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                    You’re so confident. Why?

                    Why wouldn’t I be?

                    Even after I showed you ATF agents alone can suppress an insurrection

                    LOL you’re talking about a handful of looney cultists. I’m talking about a revolution.

                    You’re still so confident despite having 0 counter-arguments

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      gas chambers in Germany. That blood is on the hands of gun control supporters.

      The “nazi gun control supported the holocaust” argument has been debunked for a very long time. Argument debunk Nazi gun control laws

      Frtuermore, gun control supporters of today are not the same as NAZI gun control supporters - who disarmed Jews.

      This misinformation disappoints me, but the nature of your comment is overwhelmingly correct.

      The tools are not the problem. Indiscriminate murder is incredibly easy and will remain so regardless of what laws you pass.

      Horrifying words that ring true. Gun control is in my opinion moot for many reasons. This guy deserved more healthcare.

      Your arguments about vans are OK but your fascist talking points tell me you’re not worth listening to.

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        The “nazi gun control supported the holocaust” argument has been debunked

        No, it hasn’t. Several people have provided their opinions on the matter. Certainly biased opinions. It can’t be “debunked” with anything less than a time machine and a militia the size that would make the NRA blush.

        Frtuermore, gun control supporters of today are not the same as NAZI gun control supporters - who disarmed Jews.

        Doesn’t matter if they’re the same or not. Only thing that matters is whether the people are disarmed. Regimes change.

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          The fucking 1% of Germans who were jewish, who were forcefully disarmed were not going to avoid getting genocided by remaining armed or trying to purchase more arms.

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            Yes. They would. And they killed more than the jews, you know? About 40% we’re non-Jewish.

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              “… It is preposterous to argue that the possession of firearms would have enabled them to mount resistance against a systematic program of persecution implemented by a modern bureaucracy, enforced by a well-armed police state, and either supported or tolerated by the majority of the German population.” - Alan E. Steinweis, NYT Source

              Your arguments so far are that people saying this are obviously biased. If we assume those persecuted could have gained firearms, armed themselves and formed a highly organized militia - all while facing road blocks at each and every turn - do you really think this militia could have kept a genocide from occurring?