Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words.
Objection@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago“Charlie Kirk said that a certain number of kids dying is an acceptable cost of having guns.”
“You brainwashed idiots are making stuff up and falling for outrage bait! What he said, if you look at the full quote, is that a certain number of kids dying is an acceptable cost of having guns, AND a certain amount of traffic fatalities is worth it to have cars.”
“How does that additional context in any way change the relevant part that we find horrible?”
“You should just know, and if you can’t figure out why I think it changes it you’re a fucking idiot.”
What a conversation.
I suppose this is the part where you take offense to me summarizing your position instead of using direct quotes, while not explaining how anything you said is actually meaningfully different.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Well, Im not going to take offence, but I will point that you have in fact misrepresented what I said. The question is why?
I mean, you currently have Trump in the white house. He seems to be setting the stage for a tyrannical government that controls freedom of speech. His followers call for violence against those who dont agree. Its at this point you should be asking yourself, are you glad you have weapons to defend yourself if this orange buffoon comes knocking on your door to take away your citizenship and send you to a 3rd world prison for the crime of wrong think?
The question then becomes, was the few deaths every year a price worth paying for that protection? Its up to each of you to answer that question. There is no wrong answer.
The actual more important question is how can you have that protection, while at the same time lowering the amount of gun related deaths every year. But for some weird fucking reason, both sides want an all or nothing solution. No room for compromise, just anger and hate.
Also, lets see you get dogpiled and not just give up and start telling people to fuck off.