xiaolongbaochikkawow

xiaolongbaochikkawow t1_je2c52d wrote

Idk what to tell you. I’m not having this argument with a farmer in the butt end of nowhere; I’m having it with people sat in a Starbucks downtown on a Tuesday morning.

You’re not all hunters, you’re not all simple folk who like goin’ bag a deer for the winter.

The societal issue in the states is not country huntsmen in the mountains with their bolt action rifle; it’s people who fetishise instruments of death and value the freedom to own them over the freedom to live without the slightest worry your kid will be executed while learning their ABCs, cunts buying coffee with automatic rifles hanging off them like a fkin tourist with a camera. It’s gross. It’s weird. The rest of the world acknowledges it

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xiaolongbaochikkawow t1_je29tpf wrote

Maybe next to you! Not in my country.

I’m also not strictly worried he’s a mass shooter I’m worried that the overwhelming majority of an entire countries population can easily secure said tools, and end lives trivially, with the effort of changing the tv channel.

I’d guess many/most gun deaths in the states aren’t even strictly premeditated, just an escalation of circumstances.

Nobody is gonna get into an argument and get shot in a heat of the moment confrontation in most western countries outside the US because it’s logistically not possible

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xiaolongbaochikkawow t1_je246c5 wrote

America can fully get in the bin. It’s got some of the coolest places in the world but absolutely non of it is worth the slightest chance of seeing that in your lifetime. I’m in my 30s and I’m so fkin happy to say I’ve never seen a civilian with a gun excluding trips to the states.

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