At a time when our government is increasingly fascist and it’s clear they want to eliminate classes of people, I’m thinking the wrong people have been buying the guns.
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masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Fuck owning guns and fuck owning guns for personal protection.
Handguns are the dumbest fucking thing the world for society to allow.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 days ago
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Oh yeah, good luck fighting the army with your handguns.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You don’t overthrow armies by lining up and going toe-to-toe.
A handgun is concealable. If we need guns, we need to appear anonymous until we’re using them up close.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
We need to widely allow handguns because of all the progress that’s constantly made from assassinating politicians with handguns?
Please do list all the politicians assassinated by handguns and how much progress that made. I’ll follow with a list of activists murdered by handguns.
Let’s see whose is longer.
Psythik@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I agree; the laws need to be relaxed to allow full auto sales.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Lmao, enjoy the half second you half firing a Tommy gun in the air before an air with an anti tank mine strapped to it blows to pieces you and everyone you love.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Yeah, a family with all the guns doesn’t stand a chance against a few musket-wielding soldiers - they can just outwait them around the house.
It’s not a 5 minute fight when you are dealing with an organised force. Civilians will fold after a week without supermarket access/water/electricity/food.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Armed people cannot defend themselves against the logistics of any organised force.
What people with guns can do against fascism is hide & attack guerrilla/terrorist style.
I do not mean that as a bad or un-heroic thing, just as the last resort of protest.
But this situation would not turn out any better had there been more guns involved. Only in case of 0 guns the situation might have been better.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 days ago
People over estimate how cool and collected they are.
The other day some asshole was letting his dog shit on the sidewalk and not picking it up. I saw. He saw me see. We made eye contact. He called me a coward and walked away.
In that moment I was emotionally ready to murder him. Just put his smug ass on the ground with his dog shit. Luckily, I don’t carry a gun so I just yelled at him. But if I had a gun on me? No way the scene would have gone better.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
In that moment I was emotionally ready to murder him.
This says more about you specifically than it does the entire population.
I’ve carried a gun for almost 10 years, and in that time I’ve had all kinds of interactions from people calling me mean names, people cutting me off, actual bad accidents caused by dumbassery on their part, a guy pulling a knife who decided to leave before getting shot, and everything in between, I’ve never wanted to kill anyone. There were a few times I was scared I might have to, like the guy pulling the knife, but I’ve always been relieved it hasn’t had to happen. You should not own a gun if someone calling you a mean name is enough to send you into a murderous rage, but not everyone is like you.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 days ago
enough people are like me that carrying guns should not be as easy as it is. We can trade counter anecdotes all we want, but I think the frequency of mass shootings and other gun violence in the US supports my position better than yours.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I think the frequency would be much higher if it did actually, what with the 600,000,000+ guns in 45ish% of the population’s hands.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
There’s a pretty big gulf between yelling at someone and shooting them… Had you considered non life-threatening physical force? Or do you always go right to murder
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 days ago
The point of the anecdote was that when people get really mad, they don’t think rationally. If I had a gun, it would have been really easy in that moment to pull it out and use it. That’s too easy.
(Though yes, I did briefly consider picking up his dog’s shit with a plastic bag of my own, and hitting him in the face with it, but by then I had cooled down enough to realize I didn’t want to potentially ruin my life by assaulting a guy on the street.)
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 days ago
Counterpoint:
Maybe it would have.
helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 4 days ago
I 100% agree we need way more restrictions when it comes to firearms, but it is absolutely necessary for people to have a firearm for their own protection. I personally know activists, especially LGBT rights activists, who’s life depended on that side holster of theirs and are still here to this day because of it.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Canada, the EU, Europe, Australia, New Zealand would all show that what you’re saying is false.
MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Order of operation is a bit mixed up here.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
No, it’s called a feedback loop and your are participating in it rather than breaking out of it.
helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 3 days ago
I was speaking from my own experience, that didn’t come from any industry or organization. If it did I would’ve said something like “we need fewer gun restrictions!!” I’m speaking personally and sharing my experiences as an activist. It’s what made me start to carry for me and my peers safety based off what I have previously told you. Because I also believe that my queer friend wouldnt still be here if not for her firearm.
But I absolutely protest for greater gun restrictions and want to actually allow the CDC to investigate gun violence. Because, yes, the CDC isn’t allowed to.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
It’s worth drawing the distinction between ‘if guns are allowed, activists should consider carrying’ vs ‘guns should be allowed so that activists can carry’.
The former I agree with, the latter I think is nonsense.