• Jhex@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    because it turned out Americans are too meek or too ignorant to act

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      People need to miss at least three meals in a row before they start getting serious. We don’t have the material conditions yet to act.

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      It also doesn’t help that all of the people with guns, like the current situation. They may subsequently change their mind when the realities of the situation start to hit in a few years, but currently they’re alright with it.

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        Not all gun owners like the current situation.

        Source: Gun Owner, do not like current situation. There’s a vast difference between a responsible gun owner and those ammosexuals who just want to be given an excuse to open fire at anything.

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        The rampant delusion that right-wing conservatives are the only Americans with guns lol. Possibly they’re just the only ones dumb enough to believe their guns and weekend target shooting would enable them to win against the US military. That would kind of make sense, cuz they’d assume Jeezus would be on their side.

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        I definitely wouldn’t say “all”. There’s plenty of us with guns that do not like the situation. What exactly do you expect everyone to do, go outside and shoot their Republican neighbor? Someone tried shooting Trump, and most leftists with >2 brain cells would agree that it would’ve been an absolute shit show if he’d succeeded in killing him.

        I don’t disagree that the group of people that like the situation are more heavily armed than the group of people that dislike it, but the same thing has been said for a decade now… Why not start changing that situation?

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          Thinking that you can just shoot your way out of your problems? Yeah, that mindset has been great for the USA! Definitely let’s have more people like that!