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I mean my gun is only for defending myself if someone invades my home or some shit. I don't go around telling people about it irl lol.
Do you have that many enemies that you need a gun to protect yourself? How often are people invading your home? Did you know that statistically you're more likely to use your gun on yourself when you feel shit, which we all do sometimes, or shoot a loved one by mistake, than having to use it against home invaders? Where do you keep it? Must be easy to grab, in case someone invades your home. Easy access, for you but also anyone else. Like a kid for example. Yours or a visiting kid, a cousin for example. Or is it in a safe? "Hold on you home invader, let me grab my gun! Wait, what was my safe combination again? Let me think... Yo, why don't you grab a coffee or something, I'll get right back at you as soon as I have my gun." Do you bring your gun to the toilet and shower? In case they invade while having a shit. Or do you also have a toilet gun? By the way, when you need a gun for home invaders... Are they out to kill you? Because if they are burglers, all they want is your TV. Is it worth killing them for that? Isn't that a bit excessive? Do you live in Johannesburg South Afrika, or Somalia or something, that you have to worry about people coming into your home wanting to kill you?
Fucking Americans and their guns.
Fucking Leftists and their guns.*
There fixed it for you.
“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary” ― Karl Marx
"Yeah! Guns are awesome! We can revolt against the government! Although I have an AR-15 and they have stealth drones. We do have school shootings because we can all want to have guns, but some kids dying here and there is worth it for me. No one takes my guns!"
Karl Marx also had his flaws and lived in different times. No drones, no tanks, no smartphones connected to a monitored network, etc. Back then you brought a gun to a gun fight. Now you bring a tiny folding knife to a gun fight. Go buy an armed predator drone and an F35 fighter jet and you can make your point again.
Fuck off. Go kill each other and be done with it. Just don't drag the rest of us down with your stupidity.
We have school shootings because we live in a deeply diseased society; a corrupt and rapidly corroding end-stage capitalist oligarchy. We no more need gun prohibition to solve the problem then we need a massive police state. What we really need: Affordable housing, fair compensation for work, universal health care (including dental and mental health), affordable childcare, suitable free time for leisure, affordable cultural activities, public events that build a sense of community, political reform, media reform, an end to exploitation in any sphere of life. Build a health society and you'd be amazed how many of our problems just melt away but instead Billionaires insist on bigger mansions and yachts.
And the rest of you're points are no points at all. Constantly disproven by history and current events.
Yeah blame everything but guns. In all countries where they banned guns the gun violence went down drastically, to a point to where it barely exists if at all. Look at Australia for example. Biggest mass shooting ever, guns got banned, not a single mass shooting since. That's in 30 years.
I agree that all the other points you mentioned are I portant too. But to bring down gun violence, the most impact change you can make is ban guns completely.
Look, it's like driving cars. I don't like being restricted how fast I can go. But some idiots couldn't behave, got drunk and drove really fast and hit and killed others. Because that happened too often, we're not allowed to drive that fast or drink and drive. No one cares whether I'm a responsible driver. This is the law because it benefits us all: it makes us all more safe.
This is how society works. We introduce laws to make us all safer, because there are some who can't behave and need these restrictions. Same with guns. This is proven in all countries where they banned guns at some point. I like guns too. I love shootings guns, I enjoy the sport. But I'm glad they are banned here, the fact that I can't have guns to insure others around me who might be crazy and/or irresponsible makes us all much more safe. So it's something I'm willing to give up for safety to us all.
But instead in the US they arm teachers, put cops in schools, have kids wear armor plates and install bullet proof windows and doors in schools. Yet shootings keep happening. Now when a kid would bring a small knife to school to be able to cut his apple during lunch he will be thrown onto the ground, arrested and put in jail and charged. People are so scared of kids with weapons doing irresponsible stuff, yet they do nothing about them being able to have access to guns. How insanely twisted and completely stupid can one be?
Look, you can copy all NRA bogus arguments about why the second amendment shouldn't change. The only true and solid argument you have is "I like guns". The rest is complete bullshit. Statistics show banning guns is the only solution. So you can listen to your feelings or to logic and facts. Right now you're willing to give up a lot of safety to be able to have a gun. "But now I can protect myself!" Well, I would like to avoid a shootout completely, even when having a gun myself there's still a change of getting hit and die. I prefer to call each other an asshole, flip each other off and go our own ways instead of escalating with guns. I prefer to sleep knowing no one will invade my house and kill me. If I have kids I want them to go to school without the risk of getting shot. I love it that I can go outside, walk the streets at any moment of the day and night without the risk of meeting an idiot with a deadly weapon (other than cops sadly).