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Tied

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  1. I think I talked about it in some post I made about traveling to Germany, but everyone I talked to about American gun culture while I was overseas seemed to think it must be terrifying living in a land where people are allowed to own guns just for the sake of owning guns. I told them about having a friend who owns a non-fully automatic AK, and occasionally shooting it, and people would give me this look like I was absolutely crazy to willingly hold something as ~~dangerous~~ as a gun, or they would ask me why I wanted to shoot it, as if there was any more reason to shoot an AK at my shitty old phone than to absolutely destroy my shitty old phone. Some of them also kind of implicitly implied that the only reason to go target shooting is if you are practicing to go on a shooting spree, which made me kind of salty. The difference in mindset is fascinating to me, because up to that point I don't know that I had ever met anyone who wasn't used to the idea of people being able to own guns. I wish I had talked to the Russian I met about guns, just to see if he had the same take as Tied on guns.

    ha 

     

    i think loosver may, just may, like firearms too

     

    call it a hunch 

     

    most people ive met like firearms, but im sort of a redneck 

  2. In any case, before I quit in a huff about Sturg's strange ideas about logic and statistics, I'm going to make my political position clear again. I am not arguing that we take people's guns away to stop suicides, nor that we take them away because they don't stop murders. They'd do little for the one and nothing for the other, and in any case your cheese burger habit is more likely to kill you overall. I'm arguing that guns are, in the grand scheme of things, a frivolity. They're toys, essentially. At least, for any society not currently engaged in a civil war.

  3. So today i learned from Toxn that its silly for a rape victim to carry a gun since statistically its more than likely she wont get raped twice and she is more likely to die from it than anyone elses gun

    I mean in the grand schemem of things it dosent matter

    I guess we should start gassing old people. Since in the grand scheme of things their lives are far less likely to contribute anything.

    Statistics dont matter you evil fucktard. Have some empathy.

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