Comment on Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals

• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When has the government failed to protect your or family members? Dont you think those would be the exception rather than the rule? If you are gearing up for the revolution I can’t blame you but I doubt you need to protect yourself in that way unless its from animals or you are a drug dealer.

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  • JasSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    When has the government failed to protect your or family members?

    Just so I’m clear, you think I’m not allowed to care about others? I’m not even allowed to care about my own safety until my family has been attacked? Wild take. I’m glad society isn’t comprised of people like you. I care about others as well as my family. Most people aren’t murdered and raped and assaulted each year. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care about murder and rape and assault.

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Private gun ownership is an answer to a systemic failure, so yes I’m asking for concrete examples of when that system failed. Is your argument that guns prevent rape, murder and assault generally?

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  • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not OP but I was the victim of years of abuse in school. So many time I was viciously attacked and no one cared. They would follow me home and attack me and my family or steal our things. Reported it all, no one cared.

    One day while preparing to go home, I was attacked and one of my bullies began choking me. I thought I was going to die and gripped his neck too. He nearly died. Government blamed me for it and I was expelled pending institutional psychiatric examination.

    Another time I was told by someone at college “don’t go to graduation”. He hadn’t been all-there for a while by then so I erred on the side of caution. Took it to local and provincial police, to national police, to the school… No one took it seriously. Had to ping an old friend who worked in intelligence to get someone to take me seriously.

    When he finally got raided: thousands of rounds of ammo, body armor, explosives, manifesto, etc… Everything he needed but the guns, but he was working on that too.

    Two very serious times the government failed to defend me or other people in my life and I had to take it into my own hands.

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why would they treat him so differently than you? Thats extremely unfair. At least you didnt need a gun to fix that problem though.

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      • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        True, but how long until that happens too? So far I’ve navigated these things with intelligence and the will to live, but I know better than to think that will always be enough. I’m ~40 and I’ve got kids, I’m not a young man with nothing to lose anymore.

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