“Bad guys have guns. Why shouldn’t decent people have guns”

Americans don’t seem to understand that the world isn’t divided between “the bad guys” and “the decent people”.

Many of the “bad guys” with guns actually were decent people with guns. Then they forgot to take their meds or experienced road rage.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    ITT a bunch of American hating trolls.

    while I agree with the sentiment current developments suggest that having a form of protection against a corrupt government is a wise precaution.

    I don’t go brandishing it openly. I don’t threaten with it. I don’t live in a fantasy to be the “hero”.

    For people outside the US you have to realize that gun ownership is a part of the American cultural experience.

    As with any society, there are those people within it that toxify the culture. My point is, don’t vilify Americans because of a subculture of our society. All that succeeds in doing is alienating and dividing us apart.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    4 hours ago

    Nothing. We’re a country of ~350 million diverse people who believe lots of different things. And this question seems in very bad faith from a 21 minute old account.

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      Oh stop it. Are you actually claiming that you can’t characterize the culture of a nation of people, claiming that there is NO prevailing common beliefs? That’s nonsense. Your objection to the question is just a permission structure for some of the terrible things that Americans tend to believe and provides way more deference to a group that, based on their collective actions for centuries, don’t deserve it.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    That brand new accounts coming here to stir shit up should be banned. Actually I’m pretty sure everyone here thinks that.

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      3 hours ago

      With how easy it is for banned accounts to just make a new one somewhere, there really needs to be some kind of account age limiter. As far as I know it’s not an option on any instance.

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          I’ve learned that any bar for entry significantly cuts down on spam. Turns out people are lazy and reactionary. Some may do that, but it’s very few compared to those who want to troll right now.

          Same thing with basic things like asking a question at sign up, or email verification. The most basic sign up things block 95% of spam

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    3 hours ago

    That a TV show about a guy getting cancer and becoming a multi-million dollar drug manufacturer in order to pay for treatments is perfectly rational.

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    Many of them falsely think that Santa Claus lives on the north pole.

    That’s wrong because Santa Claus doesn’t exist.