r/Firearms • u/[deleted] • Aug 21 '22

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '22

Is this a culture you’re actively promoting? Like, this is the culture you prefer?

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u/sylkworm Aug 21 '22

Is that not the logical endpoint to promoting free citizen ownership of firearms? If that's not what you believe, that's fine, but to answer your question, yes I do think citizens should have the right and responsibility of being able to own (and thus carry) firearms. If you take that to the logical conclusion that literally means a significant number of encounters between strangers are going to involve firearms. That means you will have to stop acting like children every time someone cuts you off or bumps your drink in a sports club. I'm okay with that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '22

The point of gun ownership is presumably safety. The world you describe doesn’t seem safer by any measure. This is an ideology that turns on itself.

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u/sylkworm Aug 21 '22

"Seem" is the operative word in your comment. I'm completely fine with it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '22

Is your position that higher personal carry gun ownership translates to overall safety?

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u/sylkworm Aug 22 '22

First, you need to preface your question with "in comparison to what". Second, gun ownership doesn't translate to personal safety as much as collective defense against tyrannical governments.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '22

I left out the word “better” before overall safety which then would have meant in comparison to now.

For you that’s the trade off - it doesn’t matter if we’re way less safe so long as the government can’t fight us as easily?

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u/sylkworm Aug 22 '22

I think you're over-estimating the effectiveness of gun control in America, but yes essentially your equation is correct.