• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    It’s their firearms policy for me, the economic stuff is just the icing on the cake. I’m literally in the industry, so I know a thing or two about firearms and the laws regarding them, and watching the democrat party be so wrong about the basic functionality of a semi auto rifle or the current laws we already have, or what the one they’re proposing will do (spoiler alert: it’ll disproportionately affect minorities just like drug laws and stop and frisk) that they’re either intentionally misleading the public or have no business making decisions on the matter as they are woefully uninformed has made it so now I can’t trust anything they say. It’d be like if you know a lot about cars and then I come on talking about how a catback makes your car faster and more deadly should you try to Charlestown someone so we need to ban them, immediately you’d know I’m a moron and disregard everything I say, same for the entire dem party and firearms.

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      1 year ago

      Politicians are idiots, but there are plenty of gun lovers on the left. Sweeping bans will be massively unpopular and won’t happen. Nobody left wants to push effective legislation and the right will fight absolutely everything tooth and nail.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, it’s the democrat party (which leftists often argue isn’t “left,” so take that how you will) that is the issue on that. I’m aware of the SRA and such.

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      1 year ago

      Firearms usage in the US is dysfunctional anyway. It causes heightened tensions in every situation. I don’t know how it can ever be better.

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        1 year ago

        Well tbf I’d rather be heightened than stabbed, and the presence of a firearm has prevented me from being stabbed at least once, so net win.

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          1 year ago

          I guess the stabber was afraid that you had a firearm, that’s why they tried to stab you? To avoid getting shot first?

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            1 year ago

            Well, besides the fact that that is a very poor plan that is more likely to get you shot than “leaving someone alone,” you should look into the concept of “concealed” carry. Idk, maybe he did have X-Ray vision, but somehow I doubt that.

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              I never owned a gun in my life, but I also have never lived in a country where guns are widely available. Well, I lived in Brazil for a spell, but not in a gun toting neighbourhood, though some of the farmers had air rifles

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                1 year ago

                Cool, but I assume you’re still able to connect the concept of “concealed” to your theory to see that it has pretty big holes. He didn’t know I had a gun until he pulled a knife on me and I showed him, so he couldn’t have pulled it in effort to murder me at for being an open carrying person minding their business, as I was concealed carrying not open carrying.

                Furthermore, once he saw it, he decided to leave for some strange reason, so that’s another hole in the theory that he likes to use inferior armaments to murder innocent people for having a different armament than he does.

                Your theory is flawed, sir individual.