But thank you for confirming my thesis: you just want to disarm other people. You neither understand nor give a rip about solving the problem.

Or they believe that disarming people would go a long way towards solving that particular problem.

Most folks who advocate for stronger gun control genuinely believe that significantly reducing the number of firearms in society, and more stringently regulating access to the firearms that remain, would reduce shooting deaths. You might disagree with that as an empirical matter. Or you might think that the costs associated with doing that, in terms of the limitations suffered by those who want access to firearms, are more important.

But it's a common internet malady, dodging the actual argument by retreating into the assumption that people don't have the motives that they profess to have - to instead construct the least charitable possible motive and claim that that's really what the other person wants:

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