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• Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not everyone lives where you live. If I’m giving advice on the internet, where people live in many different locales, I think “buy a gun” is better advice than “3D print a gun.” Especially considering that 3D printed guns require more technical knowledge to put together and there’s potential for misfires or even injuries if you don’t know what you’re doing. Not to mention the cost of the 3D printer in the first place.

  You want to go that route, by all means, knock yourself out. But it feels like you’re picking a pointless fight over this.

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think playing right into the arms industry’s bosom is good advice unless you’re serious about actually training and organizing around using a gun.

    Owning a gun doesn’t fix anything, hell using a gun doesn’t fix anything. There’s no guarantee when/if shit gets stupid you’ll even be able to get enough ammo for the thing (let alone the issues with caching a large amount of ammo).

    The only way guns are going to matter in a realistic sense is if people are afraid to shoot you because they’ll get shot. If there’s actually some kind of civil war you’ll get guns an ammo from the army.

    I’ve always just gone to the range with my friends who have guns. I’m not going to give the gun industry here a dime they don’t need.

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    • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “The last rope they sell us will be the one we hang them with.” I don’t like the idea of giving money to war profiteers any more than you do, but it is an unfortunate necessity.

      The only way guns are going to matter in a realistic sense is if people are afraid to shoot you because they’ll get shot

      Um… yes. That’s the point?

      If there’s actually some kind of civil war you’ll get guns an ammo from the army.

      From what army? What are you talking about?

      Is your plan to rely on the US government to arm the proletariat?

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      • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is your plan to rely on the US government to arm the proletariat?

        This is what you’re saying will happen as a bunch of internet users with discretionary spending individually buy themselves a third tier weapon from Uncle Sam’s Gun Shop.

        1776 only happened because france fucked with the UK’s big cash cow in the carribean at the same time. And it still resulted in chattel slavery. If thats your model for proletarian revolution it sucks.

        It was the slave revolts afterward that ended slavery and caused the south to rise up becausw they saw the writing on the wall. Do you think the slaves went out and bought their own guns?

        Now, the US has the highest incarceration rate per capita and ICE is funded currently to double the amount of prisoners in the country.

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