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[–] PizzaMan 2 points 1 year ago

Are those kinds of events counted in your data on gun ownership and gun deaths, or would they be considered outliers?

An outlier is something that is graphed. Government tyranny is not a part of the above metric.

But that doesn't matter much because:

Like you don’t have to reach very far into history before you run into governments and armies massacring unarmed populations.

Ukraine is currently getting mascaraed despite the population being one of the most armed in all of Europe.

If guns did something to prevent such massacres, then we would have noticed by now. But authoritarian governments do not care about how armed a population is, as evidence by Russia's complete disregard for how armed the Ukrainian population was. You cannot protect yourself or your family from a Russian airstrike with your gun. The Palestinians in Gaza cannot protect themselves from Israeli bombs with guns. Isrealis cannot protect themselves from Hamas rockets with guns.