• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Cool story.

    So anyways, when a country starts allowing fascism to creep in, and the “leader” is openly defying that nation’s Constitution, it benefits citizens to arm themselves to the teeth.

    I am not, in any way, a gun person. I simply HAVE to be under the circumstances presenting themselves.

    And under those circumstances it is better to have than have not.

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      So anyways, when a country starts allowing fascism to creep in, and the “leader” is openly defying that nation’s Constitution, it benefits citizens to arm themselves to the teeth.

      Abstractly, sure. And then there’s a romantic struggle between Freedom and Tyranny with lots of drama and adventure. Maybe a bit of romance thrown in for color. Big climactic action sequence. Denouement. Roll credits.

      I am not, in any way, a gun person. I simply HAVE to be under the circumstances presenting themselves.

      Who are you pointing your guns at? How many times have you pulled the trigger?

      You’re not a gun person. This isn’t the statement of a “gun person” it’s the statement of a person in the full grip of delusional power fantasy. You don’t understand what it means to use a weapon in self-defense, much less the consequences of actually trying to take a life for any reason much less one as abstract as “People Are Taking My Freedoms!”