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@freemo @zack @MelodyCooper Fewer gun deaths usually also means fewer deaths in general. It doesn't have to, but it does.

Obviously higher birth rate also causes more deaths :) But having a gun allows for more opportunities to intimidate and hurt people with it, opportunities that are often not available to people who's best available weapon is a kitchen knife.

It also allows for some opportunities that aren't really possible with blunt force objects and blades, such as deadly accidents and mass killings. There's very few multiple death stabbings and almost no baseball bat suicides.

And I have yet to hear a good argument for risks related to harder access to guns that isn't based on there being very easy access to guns.

Poland has 40 million people and the number of mass shootings that can be counted on one hand within the living history. The same is true for the great majority of countries. US is a special case for many reasons - lack of social safety net is a big factor in violence in general, so is the mass incarceration - but you could only makes things better if you make sure a crazy person can't easily purchase an automatic rifle.

@freemo @MelodyCooper I don't know if they're the answer, but taking guns away from people results in fewer gun deaths. Yes, there will still be bat deaths and hammer deaths and what have you, and we can generalise that as blunt force objects. You can't get rid of blunt force objects. Getting rid of 99% of guns is trivial in comparison.

@freemo @MelodyCooper @stormy178@mastodon.stormy178.com So guns don't kill people but they save lives? How nice of them.

@pluralistic And one gets a personal thank you note, from my experience :)

@stuherbert one pretty expensive but easy solution would be to get a power pack (Bluetti, EcoFlow etc) that generates 240v from the battery. It might even work when plugged in, although the power noise may leak. If the power pack has a decent wave form generator for 240v it should be as clean as the power station (likely worth testing before buying).

@greegreehoist Even more so with peanut.

@carnage4life I don't know, but under GDPR they have to justify it, treat it with due respect and let you opt out.

If you tell me to fear your god, you worship a monster.

@rotopenguin @lcamtuf Because lefttube.

@trinsec If you were a genius I don't think you'd want to be crazy.

If you were considering, as you should, buying a paperback version of Cory Doctorow's and Rebecca Giblin's #ChokepointCapitalism keep in mind that the font is very small and hard to read, so if your eyesight isn't 20/20 you may want to get an e-book instead.

You'd have to be crazy to be a crazy genius.

A difficult to predict issue that matches specified business rules and results in failure - is that a bug or a feature?