# Is now a good time to talk about gun safety laws?

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**Created:** [March 24, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-now-a-good-time-to-talk-about-gun-safety-laws/938605 "2021-03-24T19:01:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-now-a-good-time-to-talk-about-gun-safety-laws/938605/115 "2021-03-30T17:42:27Z")

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I apologize if I misunderstood you but why the phrase "civilized countries " here then? It confused me.

And like here where you use the phrase “first-world country” but apparently exclude the USA? Or did you mean to say “every first-world country on earth except the USA”?

> [@wolfpup](#):
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> Your sneering disapproval of the gun control measures in every first-world country on earth is duly noted. So what you’re really asking is, what are my proposals for reducing US gun violence to the same rates as all those other countries, without implementing any of the measures that have actually achieved the results in all those other countries? In short, you want to know how it can be done while still allowing virtually unrestricted access to almost every imaginable kind of gun.
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> Well, I’m sorry, but you’re asking how to fix the gun problem without changing the underlying causes of the gun problem. Which is why your own “proposals” are worthless.

Sorry if I misunderstood, perhaps you could clarify this for me?

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