• el_abuelo@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      This isn’t about your guns. It’s about guns.

      This isn’t about you. It’s about us.

      It’s such an absurd argument to equate guns with freedom - most free people live without them just fine.

      Why is it that not allowing you to own certain types of guns is an infringement on your freedom, yet the ability to drink alcohol before 21, or buy a manpad, or inject heroin into your veins not an equal violation of your freedom?

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Because it’s never your guns until it is.

      I’m sure the owner of every firearm that’s been used in a mass killing would have brought that exact question if they had been asked.

      All of those guns proceeded to become part of the problem, why should we ever just take your word that yours won’t?

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      1 year ago

      We need more responsible citizens carrying firearms, so if whacko decides to shoot at Innocent people they get readily clapped and the mass shooting is over.

      Trained armed police, security, citizens, etc. the thug, thief, ought to fear quick and equal or greater force.

      I would even say that I am pro-store owners dropping looters and mass thieves. A few of those instances, where people get dropped, and maybe the idea of such theft won’t be so appealing anymore.