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Across the United States, in most places it's legal to kill someone in self-defense even if you could run away.
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Since 2005, the NRA and the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council have helped make these so-called "stand your ground" laws the norm. #standyourground #gundeaths #NRA #ALEC #dutytoretreat #firearms #gundata #selfdefense MORE: america.cgtn.com/2023/05/05/did…
As more states adopted the recommended language of special interest groups, gun manufacturing rose significantly. READ MORE: america.cgtn.com/2023/05/05/did…
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@James85fletcher @MrAhmednurAli Dom TRY to keep up

THAT's the POINT

It's not clear at all when you look at one individual country like Japan

Although if you're capable of critical thinking you can glean some information even from that if you do your own research

For example even...
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@James85fletcher @MrAhmednurAli For example even though Japan has the tightest gun laws they have the highest suicide rates

Which shoots down the gun-ban argument that cutting legal gun ownership will reduce suicides

But like the US that's a single data point & proves nothing...

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@James85fletcher @MrAhmednurAli If things were so simple the gun-banners wouldn't find it so easy to blind the public with "science" & lies damned lies & statistics

For example Protestant cultures have higher suicide rates than Catholic

Gloomy Nordics higher than sunny Mediterranean...
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