Guns Don’t Kill Americans, Stale Bad Arguments Do

Thank you. “Moar gunz” isn’t really the answer.

Related claim: “An armed society is a polite society” (Heinlein).

Putting aside the implied strange desire to live in a society where the only way to be a considerate person is by constantly living in fear of someone shooting you, this doesn’t work out in real life. Rank these OECD countries on their reputation for politeness and then consider the degree of unfettered access their citizens have to firearms: Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, the U.S. There may be some debate about which society is the most polite, but there will be little on which is the least polite.

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