It’s not a dumb comparison because it shows that in a healthy society, people don’t try to murder each other even given the chance. The fact that Americans buy guns for “freedom” is a symptom, not the root cause of all issues.
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Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoIt’s a dumb comparison, as their reason for owning guns is entirely different and tied to national defense, not self-defense and “freedom”
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Also crazy as they don’t really have that much freedom. They’re slaves to capitalism.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I mean, so are most of us at this point. Though working to buy more guns and stuff for “freedom” is peak irony.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a gun owner in USA, I fucking hate gun culture.
ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s why I never tell anyone outside of my immediate family that I own a firearm. Because some weird fucking people in America exist. And they are gun nuts.
No bro, I don’t want to talk about your 300 blackout how you wish someone would bust into your house so you can shoot them.
I keep my shit in my safe, that’s it. It’s not a personality.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Same. Very few people know I own one and have a concealed license.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
how do you use it in a home invasion in the middle of the night if it’s locked up and unloaded?
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
honest question: then why do you own one?
I get self defense, of course, but doesn’t the fact of owning a firearm make you part of gun culture? or am I missing something?thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, you’ll know gun culture when you see it. The people that put the stupid stickers all over the car, the firearm brands, the calibers, stuff like that.
Like the other commenter you would never know that I even own a gun unless we were pretty damn close.
I don’t really have a solid answer for you. I think it started growing up where my dad had guns, rifles, in the army but he was super protective he wouldn’t show them to us, he wouldn’t let us see them, he wouldnt teach us about them so I was just genuinely curious. So when I moved out that was the first thing I bought.
And I hated the gun laws here, you can buy and sell guns just like you’re selling a car just do a bill of sale. There’s no background check for secondhand guns.
It doesn’t really ever come out of lockup unless we’re camping or going on a long road trip. I haven’t carried it in years and I think my license might even be expired at this point. I’m not scared, I don’t carry it around to intimidate anybody. But I guess the fascination has just always been there since it was withheld growing up.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Still shows the problem is the Americans rather than the guns