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[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 3:08 PM Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>
> On 06/01/2023 03:07, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> > On Thu, 2023-01-05 at 19:54 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> For me, the reason against the freedom to own a gun is the conflict with
> >> the freedom to be an idiot. I do not fear misuse of legal guns, I fear
> >> idiots who have no intention of misusing legal guns but cause accidents.
> >>
> >> I'm against the freedom to own a gun and against "assume yes" flags.
> >
> > In this sense, motor vehicles are a particularly sensitive topic that is
> > fortunately off-topic ;).
>
> Whilst both are completely off-topic for the list, both firearms (and
> any otherwise ballistic weapon - I know this from years of archery, in
> addition to firearms training), and motor vehicles, are equally lethal
> weapons, and, both should be subjected to the same degree of regulation
> in the licensing of the owners and users.
>
> Here in Australia, if a person wants to kill someone else, and does it,
> if the killer uses a motor vehicle as the weapon, if caught and
> convicted, the penalties are trivial, and it is not even treated as an
> unlawful killing.

Pretty much the same in the US.

> Unfortunately, in some countries (not referring to Australia), where
> killing people is the national pastime and primary recreational
> activity, people can buy any kind of ballistic weapon, without any
> worthwhile regulation, to encourage the recreational activity of killing
> people.

The US is mostly "fast and loose" with its permitting process mainly
due to constitutional rights.

In the US, gun deaths are dominated by suicide, not homicide. If the
US solved its healthcare problems, then many firearms deaths would be
avoided. I think it's a problem of recognizing that some things don't
work well in a capitalistic model. You can't have quality universal
healthcare in a capitalistic model, just like you can't develop new
antibiotics in a capitalistic model.

Jeff