What are your thoughts on terrorism and gun violence?

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Here is my opinion. Screen shots are provided for sources. Terrorism in the United States has killed about 3,503 people between 1995-2014 the majority of which were killed on 9/11. Gun violence in the US, on average, kills 33,880 people A YEAR. If you are more concerned with terrorist deaths than you are gun deaths, there is a problem. Don't get me wrong, we should be concerned about both. But no one disagrees that we should fight terrorism. But there is a huge disagreement on gun violence and how to prevent it. People should not be able to buy a gun if they are criminals or mentally unstable. People should have to have a background check before buying something that could potentially be used to kill people. People with children should be REQUIRED to lock their guns up so that children cannot kill themselves. If you support the "extreme vetting" of refugees and immigrants to this country in fear that they could be terrorists, why can't we have "extreme vetting" of people who want to purchase guns? Regular US citizens have killed about 10 times more US citizens in the last year due to gun violence than terrorists have killed in the last 20 years.

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I'm more worried about a white male with a gun than I am a foreign terrorist. It seems many like to ignore that domestic terrorism is a much bigger issue

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I support vetting. I don't know what the fuck "extreme vetting" is supposed to be. Since I can't get a solid answer out on anyone.

I support better regulations on fire arms, but I also think underlying causes for gun violence need to dealt with equally.

I don't get the cognitive dissidence between the two either. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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I'm for common sense gun control. Criminal background checks, mental health background checks and a ban on semi automatic assault guns. I understand if you want a gun for home protection or for hunting, I'm ok with that but if you tell me you need an assault rifle for home protection you need to move to a different neighborhood. I think there should also be bans on things like trading guns on craigslist I saw an ad the other day where someone wanted to trade a puppy for a gun. And prosecution of people who don't keep their guns secure. I'm so tired of stories where a child finds a gun and shoots themselves or someone else because the parents left a gun laying around.

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I don't know. I love my second ammendment rights and all, and I will gladly defend those rights, but I'm also for better gun control, because gun control is not the same as someone taking ALL your gun rights away, and it's mostly for all those reasons you listed above, but at the same time, I also strongly believe that having better gun control is not going to solve the problem especially when we are dealing with criminals here, because we've already had some pretty stiff laws already in place and look at where it's gotten us? And on the flip side, take all those statistics and numbers up there and compare that to how many people die in car crashes each year. 1.3 million. What about heart disease? 610,000 people die of heart disease each year. So, one could easily argue that you are more likely to die of heart disease, or other diseases such as Cancer and Diabetes, and stroke, or die in a fatal car accident than you are by a gun. 1.3 million, 610,000... those numbers are staggering, and that doesn't include the statistics for other causes of death such as HIV/aids, overdoses or accidental poisoning, spider bites, snake bites, drownings, etc etc; and while it doesn't nessesarily mean that we don't need tougher gun laws, it certainly puts things in perspective when you look at it that way. 2,596,993 people died last year of completely natural causes. Again, I'm not against posing tougher gun laws, in order to try to keep them out of the hands of children, terrorists, and the mentally challenged, or disabled people. But, in reality.... in reality... you are more likely to die of natural causes.

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Honestly. I hate that suicide is included in gun violence. Unfortunately, if someone is bent on killing themselves they will find a way, even if they don't have a gun. And the majority of the time I hear about suicide prevention/awareness is when it's for defending gun control. Seems like people don't give a crap unless it fits their agenda. Especially since those same people don't talk about the other ways people kill themselves... That and people don't talk about the times guns are used in self defense. 2.5 million times a year. Significantly more than they are used for violence. Here's some screenshots for that.

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I agree!

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Most of terrorism is domestic including 9/11 and most gun violence is gang or cop related. Another huge chunk of it are fake mass shootings. You should look them up individually...it's a slap in the face. Taking guns away would mean only cops and gangsters would have them. Gun control is insane. We came from england to not be controlled and we made a constitution so we could fend off our government if they started acting crazy....well they are acting crazy.. Now we are asking to be controlled.

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