not really. i'm not asking anybody to protect me. i'll live with - and accept responsibility for - the choice i've made to not own a gun.
I have to admit it's a little satisfying to see record numbers of guns being bought mostly by first-time buyers including many who would've previously argued for gun control.
The people who lived in this bubble of invulnerability thinking that the government was their friend and would always make sure that the police were able to be sent around to protect them if someone was to harm them.
Those people didn't give a fuck about others who knew how important and real were the reasons for them wishing to own a gun for self-protection.
i've been told, by multiple gun owners, that the primary, even sole, reason for owning a weapon is to fight government tyranny.
Maybe they mean overall as a concept, which is simply protecting yourself and your family but extrapolated to a higher level against an organized government as opposed to an individual attacker.
A lot of people would own a gun and never use one and that's how they'd prefer it. But what we're learning now is that it's better to have one and not need one than the opposite.
gwb's torching of the 4th amendment wasn't enough so maybe the president's threat to deploy u.s. troops to the streets of america is enough? i'm trying to understand what level of tyranny is required before those people put their money where their mouth is.
The reason you don't understand now is because you never bothered to try and understand previously (or you considered the reasons preposterous). You constantly adhere to black and white thinking and deliberately ignore nuance. Most people in America right now want the National Guard to quell the riots (a small % want the military). People don't want military on the streets but they also understand somewhat where this civil unrest is coming from. If Trump sent out troops to seize people's guns then they would rise up and fight back.
They won't do anything unless the government is literally right at their doorstep, and many won't even do anything then.
If the government tried to seize all guns you might be surprised how many people would rather fight and die than let that happen.
Personally, while I believe that people should have a right to own a gun. I think the whole "protecting against tyranny" rational is complete crap.
Why do you think it's crap? 262 million people were murdered by their own governments just last century. That's historically documented. What kind of fake bubble of reality have you placed yourself in to think that we've somehow transcended the terror of history and have evolved into some new species where this couldn't happen again?
If there really were the need to fight against government tyranny. Not having legal guns won't stop people from doing it. And I don't believe the government is any less likely to go down that road because of an armed populace, because... Well.. They haven't!
Look at how many regimes disarmed their populations before they went full-Hitler and then go listen to the rhetoric of some Democrats on gun control. Your logic is completely flawed but at least you're pro-gun. The biggest impediment to a totalitarian government taking over (pick up a history book) is a well-armed citizenry.
i do not own any weapons.
You have the right to leave yourself completely defenseless but I do wonder why some people wish to force that situation onto others? You want every decent individual to be equally fucked?
MORE violence is not the way to quell the protests or rioting
It's annoying how people constantly conflate protesters with rioters.
Peaceful protesting (even if people have been misled by deceptive media) should be allowed.
Unfortunately sometimes the only way to deal with rioters is by a show of force. The people that are destroying the lives of good, normal people need to be stopped.
That rioter who shot and killed that young black woman by indiscriminately firing into a crowd - how would you go about stopping someone like that?
