Comment on Anon breaks up

• Taalnazi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not a normal person. And even then, here we don’t worry about criminals with guns that much.

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  • Alk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I didn’t ask to be born in a country where burglars are likely to have firearms. But now that I am, I have to react to that fact myself.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I am pro gun control, but if I lived in the USA, I’d own a gun. My opinions are for the ballot box and don’t matter whenever someone is breaking into my house and threatening the lives of my wife and my children.

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  • the_elder@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What a terribly privileged take. Not everyone can live up in that ivory tower with you.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you think before posting, ask yourself: is it normal to break into people’s homes?

    No. It’s incredibly disturbing behaviour, and in the USA they are likely armed as well. They’re not going to nicely ask you not to resist them. That’s why you need to have a gun so you can shoot them before they shoot you.

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    • Taalnazi@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      With that mindset everyone will have guns, so violence then actually increases.

      The only answer is to dearm everyone.

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        In most of the UK, even the average police officer isn’t armed. (In Northern Ireland, the average police officer is armed, but the amount of times the firearms are ever actually fired is incredibly rare. Most of the time they go off is actually negligent. When they do go off, they are always investigated.)

        The problem is, how do you disarm the bad guys when you’ve been giving them guns without tracking them for decades

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      • Alk@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, I think we’re all in agreement about that here. But everyone isn’t disarmed. I won’t give up my gun until I know with 99% certainty that your average burglar won’t get a hold of an illegal firearm.

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