Imagine the media if a white man killed a black family of five

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[–]ayotollahsinIran 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

A question for Americans here: Assume your side has taken over the US. White Americans are the absolute majority with positive birth rates and the Left and jews are completely out of power. Would you consider gun control measures?

Most of the rest of the developed world doesn't have to deal with a very real reality of getting killed by some mentally ill depraved beast, you can argue about the rarity all you want but when it happens it happens, you or someone you love is dead, permanently injured or scarred etc. Mentally Ill scum like this guy or Elliot Rodgers or Adam Lanza should not be allowed within even a yard of a firearm, even with laws against them, guns are widespread all over the US they can easily still acquire one.

The second amendment really hasn't even been that useful for White Americans considering the state the country is in now and how little hard power yous have. Obese hillbillies with shotguns and pistols do not stand a chance against the most powerful,technologically advanced army in the world, so as a freedom failsafe the second amendment fails.

If what I described in the opening part occurred, would you consider gun control measures?

[–]VraiBleuScots Protestant, Ulster Loyalist 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I’m not American (Scottish actually) but allow me to put these points to you.

Plenty of countries in the developed world allow you to own firearms, your idea that this is unique to America is wrong. Switzerland for example requires every able bodied man to own an assault rifle as part of their conscript-défense system, and yet their murder rate is negligible. Canada too has higher gun ownership per capita & yet a much lower murder rate, the reason for this is that there are far fewer Africans in Switzerland & Canada. Firearms were legal all across the UK until fairly recently, & yet now with them being banned guncrime is increasing, yet again due to there being more Africans in our country...

The reason a lot of Europeans (including myself until I looked into it) have these misconceptions is because of the Americanisation of our media & politics & the bias nature of the media in America itself. Hence your average Brit linking US murder rates to gun ownership & ‘fat obese hill billies’ rather than dumb, criminally-prone blacks.

Most of the rest of the developed world doesn't have to deal with a very real reality of getting killed by some mentally ill depraved beast

Mentally ill people kill in every country in the world. Whether it’s done with a gun or a knife or their fists doesn’t matter to the families of the person killed.

you can argue about the rarity all you want but when it happens it happens, you or someone you love is dead

But if you’re talking about what should be national-policy then of course you have to care about the rarity (or otherwise). Not basing policies on statistics is going to lead to poor decisions.