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Colbert Rips New Speaker’s Pathetic Maine Shooting Response
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You know guns aren't that hard to make, right?
Then why isn't London full of homemade guns? If it's not the availability of guns, then what is the reason the US has so many shootings?
London does have homemade guns. I wouldn't say it's full of them, of course, but they are there and they are a problem sometimes.
Availability of guns is obviously increased by the laws being such that large scale manufacturers can make and sell, as in the US. But it's hard to disentangle America's gun culture, gun availability, and its laws. America has so many more guns than the UK in large part because the gun played such a bigger role in US culture historically, you know, violent revolution for independence and settling the Western frontier and all that. Then once there are lots of guns more people need guns to defend themselves, and so on. That was all allowed by the laws. The culture perpetuates the laws, the laws perpetuate the culture, etc.
We had a shooting with homemade guns in Halle in germany in 2019. A nazi assaultet a synagoge. But his weapons were shit and he couldn't kill anyone in the synagoge. So he shot random people on the street, killing two. If he had acess to reliable firearms the death toll would be much higher.
There are currently more guns than humans in the United States, and the reason is because industry mass manufacturers millions of these per year and they go on to the open market. While people could illegally manufacture ghost guns from a home workshop, if they were illegal these supply would be greatly diminished.
I don't really think that's an argument you can make.
It's not really an argument. Other comment said "the only thing" contributing to the supply is manufacturers, like if manufacturers weren't around guns would go away. I don't think they would.