House minority leader trying to blame video games for mass shootings. Update: Walmart pulls violent video game ads for 2 weeks

[VAMatt]

SuaveSocialist said:

VAMatt said:

1.  Those demonstrate that as the number of guns in West Korea has increased, the number of people being killed by them has decreased.  

2.  you'd still have the problem of doing so being a violation of everyone's basic human rights.     

1.  The level it decreased to is still so high that it cannot be stated that firearms ownership makes people safer or even has a causal influence in the trend, especially when compared to the levels held by developed nations with gun control (many of which are experiencing decreased levels of their own).


2.  Firearms ownership is not a basic human right.  It's not even acknowledged as a human right (check the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights if you don't believe me).  Heck, West Korea is virtually the only developed country that holds it as a right for its own citizens, and even West Korea fails to advocate for its adoption globally.

1)  Okay.  What's your point?  

2) The right to defend yourself is absolutely a human right.  Without the legal ability to keep and bear arms, your right to defend yourself has been infringed, as you lack the ability to do so.  The fact that the UN (a totally incompetent organization that has among its members the most brutal regimes in recent history) doesn't call out firearms as a human right is absolutely meaningless.  Of course that group of oligarchs doesn't want the plebes armed.