re: #336 Renaissance_Man

They won’t, however, because they are trained to obey their mass media. Americans are trained from birth in a media saturation environment to do so.

And their mass media is above all invested in maintaining the primacy of white, middle American Culture, which means presenting a cult of human sacrifice and any measure of sanity on guns as two equal extremes and a difference of opinion.

I have long been the most anti-gun member of this site. I don’t talk about it much anymore due to futility, but I am curious about something, though I doubt I will like the answer. I wonder, for those here at LGF who do love their guns and keep them around, if, hypothetically, it could be shown that you, personally, giving up your guns would lead to a 20% reduction in American gun deaths and injuries, would you do it? If not, what percentage would be enough for you to do it? Or is it inconceivable that your guns are the problem, and thus the whole hypothetical scenario is impossible and unworthy of consideration?

The problem with this argument is that it doesn’t stand up to evidence either. The flipside of “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” is that lots of other industrial countries have guns and don’t have this problem.