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Why do pro-Gunists still defend guns despite all the mass shootings and school shootings?

There was another shooting in a Chesapeake Walmart a week ago over a dispute.
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graphite · 61-69, M
Why do pro-drivers still defend cars despite 50,000 traffic deaths in 2021 alone?
eMortal · M
@graphite we need cars to go to work.
graphite · 61-69, M
@eMortal And we need guns for self protection, maybe for sport. And there's public transit and many jobs where you can work out of your house now. Nobody knows how many homes weren't robbed, and lives saved, because the crooks didn't want to chance waking up armed occupants.
eMortal · M
@graphite Why do you think people what to rob you?
graphite · 61-69, M
@eMortal Your words, not mine.
JPWhoo · 36-40, MVIP
@graphite I have two responses to your original comment.

1. You’ve got a point, why drive a car when it’s safer and better for the environment to use public transit? We’d be a lot better off if we (Americans) made our cities more compact like they do in Europe so there would be less demand for cars.

2. Cars are designed for transportation. When a car crashes or runs someone over it’s because the car wasn’t being used properly. When someone takes an AR-15 into a school or shopping center and kills 10 or more people they are using it for its intended purpose. It was designed to kill lots of people as quickly and efficiently as possible, and it did its job well. When is it ever appropriate for a civilian to do that?