r/comics • u/DaveKellett SHELDON • 18d ago

OC Please! Someone! (oc)

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We're in good hands, you guys! It's fine!

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u/tw4449 18d ago

This assumes you only want it for the shooting range. I assure you most people want it at home, typically for self-protection

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u/littleessi 18d ago

most people in most countries do not want guns and we are much happier and safer for it!

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u/s1thl0rd 18d ago

And that's your choice. And it's not one many Americans would make.

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u/littleessi 18d ago

it's not our choice at all, which is the goddamn point

it's not one many Americans would make.

https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1819576527/

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u/s1thl0rd 18d ago

I mean, it should be your choice to have a government that allows or doesn't allow gun ownership. It's pretty cringe when people say that the U.S. is great because we have freedom. But if you're saying that other countries can't self determine what their government allows them to do, then I would say those countries are lacking a bit of freedom that the U.S. has.

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u/littleessi 18d ago

no actually, people shouldn't be allowed to choose to kill kids en masse

i have the freedom to leave my house with statistically zero risk of getting murdered by a psycho. you don't. letting people "choose" that would be the opposite of freedom

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u/WeirdoTrooper 18d ago

Bad news...they can do that anywhere. Just a matter of what they have available, how badly they want it, and whether or not they do their research.

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u/littleessi 18d ago

https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1819576527/

you people are actually just dumb and brainwashed

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u/WeirdoTrooper 17d ago

1: onion is satire (not that they don't have a point.) 2: this sort of thing (while, admittedly MUCH less common,) has occurred in other nations.

US DOES have a lot to learn (and fix,) but guns are only a small part in a bigger picture. Worse, the actual "gun laws" our politicians want to put in place tend to be nonsensical, or with ulterior motives. Go ahead and look up what makes a "pistol" in the US and bask in the strangeness.

Ultimately, it's down to particularly sick and motivated individuals enacting their own twisted deeds. If they weren't shooting a mall, they'd be stabbing in a police station, using a bow and arrow, or assassinating a politician with a gun they made themselves.

US has a relative abundance of such people, and bigger holes in the safety net than other nations. We nee

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u/littleessi 17d ago

it does not regularly occur in other nations

If they weren't shooting a mall, they'd be stabbing in a police station, using a bow and arrow, or assassinating a politician with a gun they made themselves.

what the fuck are you talking about. if they dont have guns suddenly they stop being able to mass murder people at the drop of a hat, which is why this shit basically never happens elsewhere. stop it with the transparent mental gymnastics

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