• Kit Sorens@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    It’s not a bad counterargument to that claim, we’ve just moved so far past that into the cost-benefit-analysis stage. The cost to keep the 2nd ammendment as it is is pretty fucking high.

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      8 months ago

      These conversations always stunlock me. We are months away from living in a dictatorship in the U.S. and ya’ll are talking about what exactly? Revising the 2nd amendment? Can you please explain that to me?

      Because you simply must be out of your fucking mind if you think disarming yourself in the face of Ya’ll Queda is the course of action.

      • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        I hear you but also: school shooters

        Plus the dictator thing isn’t a guarantee, and even if he does win there’s still the possibility of impeachment when he’s prosecuted for inciting an insurrection

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          8 months ago

          I hear you but also: school shooters

          Would not be impacted whatsoever with any proposed legislation. The only possible thing that could stop school shooters is going door to door collecting all firearms. If you’re proposing that, see the comment you’re replying to.

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            8 months ago

            True. I’ve held this position long before Trump was openly fascist, though, and I’m not saying right now in particular is the right time. Just preferably before me and my friend’s kids would be growing up and going to school.

            But if all goes well in the future, I’ll absolutely be voting to round up the guns. And if it comes to it let the military and cops take the…backlash, to put it softly.

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              8 months ago

              “If all goes well in the future”

              This mentality is toxic.

              • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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                8 months ago

                How? Trump absolutely could win the presidency again, and I don’t think coming to terms with that is a bad thing. It’s just reality.

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                  8 months ago

                  Weird when someone cherrypicks their own comment. Here we go.

                  If all goes well in the future … to put it softly.

                  So what you’re essentially saying is that; in order for the problem with guns to be solved we need to be at an indeterminate point in the future where 1) the cops and the military no longer have fascist influences, 2) we use them to corral people who don’t want to give up their guns and kill them.

                  Then you cherrypick your own comment to appear as if you’re just forward thinking by hedging your bets.

                  Allow me to put it this way. You, or anyone else, that has lived through the months following Jan 6th 2021 and seriously discusses the topic of taking guns away (especially in the very fascist manner that you’re invoking) is one of three things.

                  You are either an idiot, a liar, or a bot.

                  I hope for you’re sake that you’re just an idiot. You can fix that.

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                    8 months ago

                    Trump losing was what I meant by “all going well,” and that’s the part you decided to quote and respond to. Things are “going well” when Republicans lose influence, and those are the conditions it’d take for me to vote for guns to be outlawed. You’re getting upset over your own lack of understanding lol.

                    1. we use them to corral people who don’t want to give up their guns and kill them.

                    Now you’re just making shit up, I can’t even charitably call that a misinterpretation.

                    What I’m saying is that if guns were outlawed there would almost certainly be citizen militias fighting against it, and it wasn’t me who signed up for the responsibility of dealing with illegal use of guns. That’s the police and military.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, what needs to happen is changing those laws. The constitution has been changed many times before, and there’s no reason it can’t be changed again.