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> Men commit more murders than women (in all places and times).

I know, 90-95% in fact! Which makes it interesting that so often people focus on racial issues, like the plight of white south african farmers, when there's a wayyyy larger correlation with violence of all kinds, and gender. An individual gun owner's reason for owning a gun may focus on some abstract interracial political violence, when they're much more likely to be murderer by a young, poor, man.

> Redefining safety as freedom is absurd.

If some level of safety is required in order to live, freedom is contingent on safety. When you're dead you can't own any guns.




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