r/MurderedByWords • u/james_dykeson • Aug 05 '19

Murder Murdered by numbers?

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u/Harambeeb Aug 05 '19

What if I told you banning guns is also an easy scapegoat.

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u/Smithman Aug 05 '19

Nah. It actually works.

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u/Harambeeb Aug 05 '19

Not if the underlying issue isn't guns, but poverty, the greatest predictor of violent crime.

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u/PretendKangaroo Aug 05 '19

That doesn't make any sense at all. None of these trump terrorists have been poor. The first one way back in 2016 was a trust fund baby who drove his expensive car into a crowd of people, the most recent ones had expensive assault rifles and body armor.

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u/Harambeeb Aug 05 '19

There is a huge difference between your garden variety violent crime and terrorism, unfair comparison.

You are basically arguing that the only violent crime that is a problem is the one made by a single arbitrary group.