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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Yall seem to have forgot that the right to bear arms as originally written, was also the responsibility to bear arms. They didn't have cops. The real root of all these mass shootings is nobody shoots back, all you fuckers are supposed to be armed.

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[–] krayj -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (64 children)

The sub-headline of the article claims there is no purpose for "assault weapons" other than killing people.

each designed with a single purpose — to kill lots of people as fast as possible

Is this article trying to tell me I'm using mine wrong? Because I use mine only for things that don't involve killing people.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I don't offer pole-lease a lot of operating room emotionally in the US.

But I do think that pole-leasing in the US must feel different to lots of other places.

Just so many freaking guns with all types of people. And it makes even a traffic stop just as dangerous as going to a domestic dispute or an armed robbery Fucking guns.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (36 children)

It's a social issue not a gun issue. Shitty parents, shitty economics, shitty education and a shitty social structure are what makes America a higher crime nation in general and a higher gun crime nation specifically.

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