• random@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    for one I just belive that every human should be able to defend themselfs with weapons, if we didn’t have guns I’d belive in the right to bear swoards or a bow

    but now to why I belive this:

    so you should know I’m an anarchist, so I reject every authority, that’s why I think we should have guns, so we can stand up against authority if we need to or even if we lived in an anarchist utopia, we should have them in case a forgein nation would attack

    then you also have to realize, that you can kill someone without a gun, but only if you’re the stronger one. now who is stronger than the avarege woman? the avarege man! so the avarege man could rape and traumatize the avarege woman with no instant consequences so how can the avarege woman defend themself? with a gun

    now I am a transgender individual in a country growing more fascist by the day, should I have to fear assault, rape and murder only because I’m different? no, I should have to be able to defend myself

    I accept that your opinion may be different, and that’s ok, there are good reasons to ban guns, this is just my stance on it

    also, it basically boiles down to one thing: do you preffer freedom or safety? because freedom isn’t safe and safety isn’t free, I personally like freedom more, that’s why I like my guns (and the fact, that gunsmithing is my favourite hobby)

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      Here in Australia people defend themselves fine without guns

      Guns are better at killing lots of innocent people than defence.

      Great for suicide too , and angry people who have a bad day and are unstable

      You’re better off with pepper spray and a rape whistle

      In shootings, trained people don’t stand there shooting back, they run. That should tell you more about the effectiveness of guns as an offensive weapon instead of defensive.

      Lots of people with guns out there who think they’re the good guys

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        2 months ago

        what if your guy wears glasses and no help comes tho?

        don’t get me wrong, ik that guns can do lots of evil, but the thing is: people who want to break the law won’t care if it’s illegal to own a gun

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          Don’t allow criminals to own guns, and they increasingly drop out of circulation. Don’t issue them unless there is good reason for them to have it and they have a clean record

          Self defence here in Australia isn’t a valid reason to own a gun

          This also allows the people who sold the guns to be arrested too.

          The fact is, if a criminal has a gun, you’re not using a gun to defend yourself. They have more experience and are more prepared.

          Here in Australia, I was actually in a near school shooting which was stopped because it was only a hand gun and because someone with martial arts experience took him down

          Your other problem is that you guys let kids use guns, so that turn it into paet of their identity

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        yes, I would, as I statet, physically stronger people could easily beat or strangle me to death

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            For real. Any gun I could obtain as a private citizen is not going to stand up to the weight of the police, let alone the US military if a true authoritarian regime took over. My right to a hunting rifle doesn’t matter when they have tanks and drones.

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            that’s not rly how guns work, if I was rly good with guns I could kill someone with a .22lr if they had a 9mm and were bad with guns, the thing is different guns are good for different things, you won’t be able to use a shotgun effectively at 50m++ for example or a sniper rifle at 7m–

            also how good you are with guns isn’t a genetics thing like physical strength

            of course I’d rather live in a world without guns, but the moment one person has a gun everyone should have one

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              I always wonder why the usa is so against iran or north koera getring nukes… if some countrys have nukes, everyone shiuld have them…

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                yeah, I do belive that if any all countries should have nukes

                > I always wonder why the usa is so against iran or north koera getring nukes

                this is because their intention isn’t for countries to defend themselfs, but to be the world power and have a monopoly on violence (as every state does), that’s also the reason I don’t like the state.

                now, why do you think most states don’t want you to get guns?

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                  Its not that “states” dont want me to have guns but the people of that state dont want there to be so many guns.

                  If i have a argiment with my neighbor i can be reasonable shure that he wont pull a gun out if he is mad. Pulling a trigger on someone is much easier than beating someone to death. If you fear the state becoming a facist regime maybe put mechanisms against that into your consitution instead of saying " just have guns" because thats is not a working mechanism. Against facism you need free public media that isnt privatly owned or government controlled. You need good public education and a working democratic system. America has neither of these things and instead of demanding that either of these get implemented the idiots freak out about gun co trol as if they could do anything against a facist state. Half of americans think that trump is fit for office, do you think that your right to a gun will solve the problem? If you want to kill him fine, but that means there is still a maga group full of idiots who will rally behind the next dude that wants a to build a facist state. Do you really think that ton of maga idiots with guns who think that immigrants eat their pets will not be more destructive than people not having guns at all?

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        Just so you’re aware, the anti-government Anarchist trope isn’t real. Anarchists generally see the government as useful. It’s also not about the government. It’s about power structures in general which restrict people’s freedoms. It’s a very good philosophy, but the name has been ruined (probably purposefully) by the media portrying them as edgy total anti-government idiots.

        If you’ve ever in your life thought Libertarians had decent ideas, Anarchism is the actual good version of that that isn’t just created to allow people to have sex with children. Anarchism wants government to protect people and wants to remove restrictive and coercive power structures.