I feel like the state of gun control laws in the US are hopelessly inadequate.
Everyone who complains about gun control and how “oh if I didn’t have my gun then I would be defenseless against a criminal with one!” is just a hopeless, powerless individual who lets the mild amount of feeling of power that holding a gun might give rush through their head.
Those are the sorts of people that cause most gun violence in the USA. Gun control has been proven to work extremely well in countries such as Japan and the Scandinavian area, where gun control is extremely strict.
According to the logic of anti-gun control supporters, these areas should be riddled with robbery, due to the inability to defend oneself against a criminal with arms. However, because guns are so difficult to get, and that just having one can and will get you at least inspected by the police, this is not true. Granted, these nations also have the boon of not being ran by Smith and Wesson, along with other corporations, helping a lot with the social services area and general welfare of the nation, which are factors that help lesser crime.
Police brutality is another factor that gun control laws affect. In places such as Hong Kong, and most of Asia, police brutality is extremely unheard of, because gun control laws are so strict that even police can’t have weaponry. Weapons in general aren’t easy to acquire, and instead the police are armed with “Man Catcher” poles, which are sort of like a pole with a crescent shape at the end, intended to pin down and hold someone until more police, with more poles, arrive.
To prove another point, let’s take shootings. The USA is notorious for countless school shootings, and yet instead of doing something productive, such as, hypothetically, making gun ownership harder than just a simple background check, instead we have geniuses design new schools like CoD maps
(this is not a joke. Schools are being designed with elements in mind that shooter game maps are designed with.)
School shootings still happen in nations like the ones above. But the term “Shooting” is misleading, because these are instead done with weapons such as knives or, in one case, a shovel. The amount of shootings are also much lower because said countries, again, are not ran by corporations.
Gun control laws are not an infringement of your rights, but instead literally just exist to help protect you. Americans in general seem to be the most susceptible to completely ignoring major issues in a country, considering all the horrible news headlines relating to USA. Gun control is the key to a safer nation, and the USA is allergic to that.
Anyways, guns aren’t really that great aside from the musket, and that’s only if you can land Piercing shot. Realistically a poison tooth dagger is more effective damage wise and mobility wise.
