• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    Been working out so well with around 50k Americans dying every year needlessly. We are also clocking in at around one thousand child deaths every year. Japan had zero child deaths from guns this year, and the last, and the last, ad nauseam.

    I know you gun nutters love your defense fantasies, but arming the gays isn’t going to solve any problems and will result in more dead people

    We already have more guns than people. How many moar guns until we are finally safe!?

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      13 hours ago

      But we’re not talking specifically about protecting children here, I’d agree with you that less guns are better to those ends. For fighting fascism though? It took a lot of gun deaths to unseat Hitler and Mussolini

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        Sure in a hypothetical alternate reality where the only way to defeat evil is to shoot it. Unfortunately we live in the real world and it just means more dead people.

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          Maybe I’m feeling cornered, vulnerable, angry, as is often the case with these things. But how do you suggest we protect ourselves and our allies from an evil that strengthens itself off of your sickness, your hunger, your homelessness, and has absolutely no qualms about meeting you with violence and coming up with an excuse later?

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            I would not suggest purchasing a gun if you are feeling cornered, vulnerable, and angry. Fear is the mind killer.

            I would suggest reaching out to others, talking, getting political, and organizing.

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              Bringing a good argument to a gunfight is unfortunately not a winning strategy. When the fascists have no qualms shooting you simply for being yourself, no amount of peaceful organizing is going to stop them. Peaceful protests and organizing only work because they have the implicit threat of violence if the demands are not met.

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                Yeah because that is what Martin Luther King Jr. would have wanted. We also have to ignore all the peaceful demonstrations throughout history to believe your line of reasoning.

                I totally get you live in a fantasy world where moar guns are the only solution. I guess the good guys just magically kill the bad guys. Glad we got that all worked out.

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                    “If the Negro succumbs to the temptation of using violence in his struggle for justice, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and his chief legacy to the future will be an endless rain of meaningless chaos.”

                    I heard his words and understood the significance. You pretend he would support a literal genocide on the American people through gun violence. It is sickening really.

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                  Would you like to investigate what the Black Panthers did? The number of times they shot their guns in anger is very small, but having guns was integral to their strategy of protecting the rights of black people being harassed by police. They were so effective that they changed to rules to prevent them from using guns the way they did. There were little more than 100 Black Panthers around at the time.

                  Perhaps you’d like to have a broader view of history beyond peaceful protests? Peaceful and violent means of protest rarely exist alone, and are rarely effective alone.

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                    India would like a word. I have a very broad view. The difference is people don’t always have to murder each other. In fact, murdering each other rarely brings about the kind a change we need in our society.

                    On today, the day we celebrate MLK Jr. maybe you could give peace a fucking chance. Tomorrow you can go back to being murderous gun nutter.

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                Why stop there, surely there is something worse. Perhaps a personal nuclear weapon. Nothing too big of course, but just big enough to let’s say make everyone regret having messed with you.

                Think what a civil society would develop if everyone had one of these. On a side note, I am taking investments on a hot new uranium mine prospect.

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                    What is the right time though. Would it be on a Friday for maximum shock or on a Monday so the news would have all week to discuss it.

                    And who are these people who would sing the praises. Most of all what did Mar a Lago do to deserve this. Maybe they hovered their finger over the “button” looking menacingly at you.

                    But yes, we all like noble deeds and to be known for centuries sounds great. Have you ever thought of opening up your own suicide bomber school.

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            Trumpers killed exactly zero gays today. Meanwhile over one hundred Americans died of gun violence including a couple of children.

            This is the difference between your fantasy and my reality.

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                There is a difference between a hundred dead bodies everyday and your revenge fantasy.

                Don’t even pretend you actually care about human life when we have a thousand dead children to lay on the altar of moar guns every year.

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                    Meh, the truth is we lost a Vietnam of Americans to gun deaths this year. 50k people dead. That happened every year now the last twenty years

                    That is one million Americans dead. Please tell all those dead people and all the people who lost their loved ones that we need these guns to protect against facism.

                    We have moar guns than any other nation. We have moar fucking guns than people. Yet we are surrounded by fascists and need moar guns!

                    I mean at some point you just need a stupidity check.