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10 May 2020, 9:01 pm
People managed without them for millennia. Bring back jousting if you need to fight.
The gunpowder revolution is likely responsible for the end of serfdom. Please don't wish to undo that improvement without considering the consequences. Most of us wouldn't benefit from it.
I don't really see the issue with guns themselves, it's the stupid people that get their hands on guns that do crime and violence with guns that is the issue.
Of those people though, there's a split between those who engage in such behaviours out of economic necessity vs. those who do so simply because they're incapable of restraining their violent impulses.
The former can be reduced (although probably not entirely eliminated) by reducing the likelihood of people ending up mired in an inescapable cycle of poverty since once the disincentives for not aligning yourself with that are reduced it's likely in the long run to lead to people choosing to abandon that lifestyle.
With the former, excuses don't justify it but they still exist. The latter are just needledicks who have no excuse whatsoever.
I wish the concept that a person can own another human being was never invented. Few notions have inflicted more harm upon humanity than that one.
11 May 2020, 12:43 pm
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11 May 2020, 1:57 pm
Antibiotics and germ theory; we've become an out-of-control invasive species ever since. 
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20 May 2020, 10:31 pm
As long as recreational use continues to exist that sounds fair, otherwise I'll need to be an inventor.
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