• balerion@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    My recommendation for people to arm themselves isn’t going to encourage to or dissuade anyone from doing so.

    Then literally why say it?

    they have a right to own them

    Yeah, and maybe they shouldn’t. There’s lots of dangerous shit you have no right to possess. Guns should be in that category. And for the record, I don’t believe the government should be sending armed people to enforce shit either.

    You sound like my mother.

    Smart woman.

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      1 year ago

      Where in my original comment did I say that, in general, I recommend that people purchase firearms?

      Even if they shouldn’t, that’s what the government is for, not me. Exercise the rights you have, you nor I have the authority to tell people otherwise.

      Anything else is fascism and I’d rather not be hypocritical in my beliefs.

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        1 year ago

        You heavily implied that people of color, at least, should purchase firearms.

        What? When the government tells you what your rights are that’s good and normal, but when a random person tells you what your rights are that’s fascism? Nothing about that makes any sense at all.

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          1 year ago

          Heavily implied? So you’re assuming that I’m making a generalization without actually having made said generalization?