• Flax
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    111 day ago

    “Ah yes, someone is trying to break into my house, let’s go down to the shop and buy a gun”

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      If you think before posting, ask yourself: is it normal to break into people’s homes?

      And even then, here we don’t worry about criminals with guns that much. The USA is idiotic in that regard, with its pervasive gun culture, resulting in weekly mass shootings.

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        81 day ago

        I didn’t ask to be born in a country where burglars are likely to have firearms. But now that I am, I have to react to that fact myself.

        • Flax
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          71 day ago

          I am pro gun control, but if I lived in the USA, I’d own a gun. My opinions are for the ballot box and don’t matter whenever someone is breaking into my house and threatening the lives of my wife and my children.

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        61 day ago

        If you think before posting, ask yourself: is it normal to break into people’s homes?

        No. It’s incredibly disturbing behaviour, and in the USA they are likely armed as well. They’re not going to nicely ask you not to resist them. That’s why you need to have a gun so you can shoot them before they shoot you.

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          41 day ago

          With that mindset everyone will have guns, so violence then actually increases.

          The only answer is to dearm everyone.

          • Flax
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            21 day ago

            In most of the UK, even the average police officer isn’t armed. (In Northern Ireland, the average police officer is armed, but the amount of times the firearms are ever actually fired is incredibly rare. Most of the time they go off is actually negligent. When they do go off, they are always investigated.)

            The problem is, how do you disarm the bad guys when you’ve been giving them guns without tracking them for decades

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            21 day ago

            Yeah, I think we’re all in agreement about that here. But everyone isn’t disarmed. I won’t give up my gun until I know with 99% certainty that your average burglar won’t get a hold of an illegal firearm.