• tidderuuf@lemmy.world
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    That’s great! Just keep your hands off firearms for law abiding citizens and you’ll have my vote.

    Edit: since some users here are confused on politics… In the U.S. there are such things as liberal gun owners. Come shooting with us sometime and you can see why we hate fascism.

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      Man, if we convince every single issue gun rights voter that the left is actually pro gun - shit, we could go bring justice to the pedophiles by next week. Fuck voting at that point.

      Seriously though. We literally have our own version of the NRA on the left, the SRA. Any self respecting leftist owns at least one firearm.

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      Its a conservative supreme court, you don’t have to be a single issue voter. Progressive candidates can try to make promises to get elected, but no ones going to be able to take your guns away. Even a progressive court wouldn’t be able to do that much. A law for background checks or waiting periods on purchases might be upheld by a progressive court, but the right ultimately won’t be infringed.

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        That’s hilarious coming from a Canadian where it’s difficult to get or even keep anything other than a pellet gun.

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          If your guns – that you presumably virtually never need to use – are such a ridiculously high priority to you, then your priorities are seriously out of whack. Especially since nobody’s trying to take them from you unless you’re mentally unfit to have them. Or is that the real reason for your “concern?”

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            Hobbyists don’t need guns at all. And, in order to preserve game species for future generations, hunters should be limited to using Stone Age bows with flint-tipped arrows, spears from the same era, and (in a bow to modernity) Louisville Sluggers, but only for bears over 1/4 of a ton.

            As for self-defense, do something useful like learning situational awareness.

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              Can’t rebut my argument (or won’t, which may be telling), so you lamely try to move the goalposts. Hard to take you seriously after that. What happened in those places isn’t going to happen here anytime soon (at least not with regard to guns). There are plenty of other much more pressing issues that should be higher in your priory list.

              BTW in case you didn’t notice, I’m not the person you were talking to a couple comments back.

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                anytime soon

                See, it’s saying things like that that’s making people like them skeptical.

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                  Riiggghhhhttttt. Ignoring the fact that the distant future is almost completely unpredictable makes people less skeptical. Make sense.

                  🙄

                  For those of us grounded in reality, the likelihood of gun ownership being forbidden anytime in the foreseeable future – especially when there are so many millions of people out there with them already – is extremely unlikely.

                  At the risk of sounding like a “think of the children” argument (which, ironically, that side of the political spectrum loves to misuse), I don’t believe anyone sane wants mentally unfit people to have access to guns.

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                    Honestly though it was kinda close in the 90s, and there are idiocracy things like the 3d printer gun shape AI detection being pushed as a gun control policy