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MeatsimPD t1_j29fmxd wrote

It's like guns. People assume all these things are brought into the US illegally or sold in stores illegally. Truth is that it's mostly been entirely legal and extremely profitable for pharmaceuticals and gun manufacturers to sell products that create human misery in whatever quantity they want. And instead of them being held accountable it's always the street dealer selling their product or the user that faces consequences

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eltigrechino94 t1_j29mlri wrote

Who assumes that about guns? The US is the largest market for guns in the whole world, with dozens of domestic producers. Sounds like you just made something up to provide a comparison. Maybe a couple hundreds of idiots but the general public doesn't assume guns in gun stores are smuggled from Mexico.

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MeatsimPD t1_j29rdto wrote

Most people don't realize that nearly every gun used in a crime was legally produced and sold by it's manufacture or reseller when its first sold to the general public.

America has a serious problem with companies that produce things that are too often used to commit crime or cause harm. I'd place big pharma, health insurance providers, and gun manufacturers in that category of companies designed to profit from things that too often just make people's lives worse

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eltigrechino94 t1_j29vd0b wrote

"Most" people think the guns with Glock and Colt stamped on them were made illegally. 🙄 Sure they do. You're spouting common knowledge as if it is some rare secret when the only people who think America is full of illegally produced weapons are 14 year old swedes during their first week on the Internet.

These people that you think are "most" Americans are probably less than 5% of the population, the same 5% you can convince that lavender oil can cure cancer or the the moon is fake or any other crazy thing that is completely ridiculous.

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