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Landlocked_WaterSimp t1_jadrvsl wrote

Reply to comment by RedModus in medical malpractice kills 500k Americans every year, but the perceived good outways the bad, food for thought by RedModus

Yet i can't recall ever hearing any german complain that they need weapons to defend their rights against the government. Amongst 80+ millions they must exist for sure but they seem extremely rare.

  • As others have stated it's not like regular firearms will be enough to seriously put up a fight against your government if the military is on their side (and if not, you won't need to bring you own guns most likely). Sure it would be better than nothing but you're keeping weapons around which cause many deaths each year for an absolutely minuscule benefit in a hypothetical scenario that is very unlikely to happen.
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endorfan13 t1_jadrpos wrote

Reply to comment by 13kathleen in medical malpractice kills 500k Americans every year, but the perceived good outways the bad, food for thought by RedModus

I think their point was that we do not hear about, or have all the discourse over, medical malpractice which has a much higher statistic as a cause of death (recent sources I just searched put an estimated 250k on medical malpractice and 43k on all gun related deaths [homicides, suicides, accidents, etc.]).

I don't feel it's a diversion tactic to shift attention as much as it is a question of why 2A and gun control receive ALL the attention.

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