Trump said:
Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!
The “argument” seems to be that gun regulation had no effect upon this attack. This argument has multiple problems.
First, even if we supposed that gun reform had no effects upon this attack, why would we conclude that it had no effect upon other attacks.
I mean is this really the syllogism :
A. Gun regulation had no impact upon this attack (unfounded assumption)
B. Whatever had no impact upon this attack will have no impact upon other attacks. (another unfounded assumption)
C. Therefore, Gun regulation will have no impact upon no future attacks.
Is this what we are reduced to ? We are well and truly f@#$@#$ if we cannot reason better than this. Now, I submit that a many would not agree with A, but who really agrees with premise B ? Only the dumbest and most committed of ideologues would affirm it.
Next, let us consider the attack and its results : 7 dead and 48 injured.
Now an AK-47 has 30 rounds per magazine . Theresa May stated that it took 8 minutes before the police arrived. Suppose, the three attackers each had one AK-47 and one magazine. It can be used to shoot 40 rounds per minute as a semi automatic. Now, with 90 rounds, and let us suppose that they are so inaccurate that they only obtain 10 percent kill shots. That right there would be 9 deaths, not 7. This is an absurdly low percentage and these people train prior to missions. What if 50 percent of their shots are kill shots ? That is 45 people killed right there. And this is only one magazine.
Guns have one purpose: to kill. They cannot be used for household purposes. They help humans kill more efficiently than they could otherwise do. If the attackers had firearms, then they would have killed and wounded more people.
Guns do not help women or others protect themselves against an attacker.
Lie: A gun in the home makes you safer because you can defend yourself against criminal invaders.
Truth: Having a gun in the home makes you much more likely to die by suicide or an unintentional shooting. When there is a gun in a home where domestic violence occurs, a woman is five times more likely to be killed by her abuser. And for each use of a successful gun in self-defense, there are four accidental shootings.
Every day this happens:
Every Day on Average (ages 0-19)
Every day, 48 children and teens are shot in murders, assaults, suicides & suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention.
Every day, 7 children and teens die from gun violence:
- 4 are murdered
- 2 kill themselves.
Every day, 40 children and teens are shot and survive:
- 32 shot in an assault
- 1 survives a suicide attempt
- 8 are shot unintentionally