Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.

• nBodyProblem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is honestly, the dumbest, most American take in the world.

  Hell yeah brother 🦅🦅🦅

  It literally ignores the plainly obvious fact that not a single other developed country allows gun ownership, and yet, still have rights and democracy and freedom.

  Many other developed countries allow gun ownership. Educate yourself, my man.

  But more importantly, I literally do not care if they do or not. The point was never that democracy cannot exist without firearms, but rather that in the worst case scenario an armed citizenry can act as a force against tyranny. It’s a rare thing that it might be needed, and a last resort. No sane person wants a civil war

  Guns did not get your rights

  Except they literally did. How do you think the revolutionary war was won, softly spoken words?

  they do not protect you from a government that has AI powered drones with anti tank mines on them. Hell a fucking APC with a sound cannon will make your AR look like a child’s toy.

  Guerrillas with small arms in developing countries have repelled the US military repeatedly over the past half century. More importantly, if you don’t think a combination of small arms and low cost homemade munitions are effective against a modern military you haven’t been paying attention to the war in Ukraine at all.

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  • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you know how many innocent people’s blood that has cost?

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    • sexyskinnybitch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it’s not fear mongering when we’re literally months away from being the next fascist state.

      And another thing to consider, cars kill about as many people in the US as guns, so we should be talking about banning cars as well?

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      • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh do tell us the value of goods and services transported every day by gun.

        Because I can give you a number for the approximate economic value provided by cars, can you tell us the economic value provided by guns?

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      • kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Cars kill more people in both raw numbers and by proportion

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    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Each good human being only needs to kill one fascist, and the fascists will quickly be gone.

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      • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Unilaterally labelling people ‘fascists’ and thus worthy of death, makes you a fascist.

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    • kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you have any idea how much blood fascism will shed?

      Yes, arming the public will get people killed, do you think death camps are a preferable alternative?

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  • Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Many countries permit gun ownership, not like the USA does.

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