Wolfe and his fiancée, who witnessed the alleged assault, believe the attack was related to Wolfe being transgender, according to court documents.
Wolfe and his fiancée, who witnessed the alleged assault, believe the attack was related to Wolfe being transgender, according to court documents.
we are talking about populations, not some specific individual.
you literally told a specific individual not to get a gun
Right - because owning a gun dramatically increases their chances of being the victim of gun violence.
You keep saying that in such vague terms. What exactly do you think is gonna happen?
Well what usually happens is that someone is killed with the gun they bought that they thought would make them safer. What don’t you understand?
“Usually” huh? How?
Sorry - what’s the context here? Usually what?
What do you think usually happens? Does the gun spontaneously jump up, chamber a round, and attack? Or do you seriously think most gun fights result in hand to hand combat where the dude with just hands nearly always wins and disarms then murders the person defending themselves? Cause it sounds like the latter is what you want people to think, but both sound equally as stupid to me.
You know what I think it is? I think that number is mostly suicide. I also think that number deliberately ignores all successful self defense scenarios. Oh I’ll bet a bunch of them are abusive partners murdering their victims. But those are exactly the people who needed a good defense option in the first place. Every single day they were already in danger. I’ll bet there’s also a bunch of dumbass parents who didn’t secure their weapon properly to safeguard their dumbass kids. But I’ll bet the numbers for strangers breaking in and murdering you in your own home with your own weapon are almost nil. And about the same for concealed carry incidents. Disarming someone prepared to defend themselves with a gun when you don’t have one is fucking hard.
So mostly I hear you saying, “if you get a gun there’s a slightly increased risk you’ll commit suicide!!” If someone is buying a gun because they’re worried about being the victim of hate crimes, they probably aren’t suicidal.
Look - all of the things you mention are contributing factors in the dramatic increase in risk that someone takes on when they own a gun. The cases where someone successfully defends themselves against an attacker are so rare as to be essentially fantasies that gun-fondlers engage in. If you want to fondle guns, go ahead - just understand how much more risk you are taking on that if you didn’t.