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On the Voyager app you can see that it wasn’t edited at all.

That really does not matter. Spend some time camping with no phones and notice how differently you feel and behave. Humans did not evolve to have smartphones and social media, it triggers numerous emotional responses without actually satisfying them, by its inherent nature.

Social media. You use it up spending time on Reddit and Lemmy etc.

Small arms doesn’t mean pistols, it means weaponry that doesn’t have to be mounted to something else.

It includes automatic and semi-automatic military rifles (like M16s and AKs) and light machine guns (like SAWs and RPDs).

Again, those wars were fought primarily with military weaponry, not handguns.

Happiness comes from acceptance, not obsession.

Except that when you allow guns to be purchased widely, malcontents will always purchase them in greater quantities and more frequently, by nature of being malcontents and attracted to something that gives them more power.

Because guns are not inherently an equalizer, they are just a way of giving someone an enormous amount of deadly power. If you give two people that same enormous amount of deadly power then it can equalize them compared to where they were before, but that is the only case where they equalize things, and they’ve equalized them by making them both twitchy dangerous live grenades.

I.e. I can equalize milk that’s a month old and milk that I just bought by leaving them both in the sun for a few hours. That doesn’t mean I’ve made society better or safer. Like I said, the arguments for gun ownership only ever make sense in an anecdotal one off scenario. Every single one falls apart when you examine its effects at a society wide, systemic level.

Vietnam/Iraq/Afghanistan

Lmao, you think they were fighting back with 9mm pistols that they carried to Walmart to feel tough?

Bruh those armies fought back with conventional military guns and mixtures of conventional military explosives and IEDs.

I get it, it just makes it sound like widespread ownership of guns aren’t directly contributing to the problem in a major way.

Yeah, and you keep phrasing that like it’s comparable, it’s not.

Put statistics behind your words if you think they’re rising to a place of being comparable with the US.

but they’re the only thing that equalizes everyone when force comes into play.

This is fucking idiotic.

Are you not aware that the government has bigger, better, and more autonomous guns than you do?

Also, I suspect people who are anti-gun have never had violence inflicted upon them

Have you considered that some have just had violence inflicted upon them by people with guns?

How about en exam on morals and ethics?

Let’s just hope that there’s no such thing as “mental illness”, or “emotion”, that could make a “good guy” want to do something “not good”.

No, we’re not. There is literally nothing in Europe that happens in a year that compares with the gun violence and homicide rate happens in America in a weekend.

Yeah, but they’re not because no one wants to fire something that might blow up in their hand, and it’s not actually that easy to mass manufacture illegal guns, even with 3d printers and CNC machines.

Like I said, we all know you can make a homemade gun with online information. That has been the case for literally the last 2 decades. And yet, underground homemade gun manufacturing is virtually non existent, because guess what, it’s not that easy to do at scale in a way that won’t get you immediately caught and all your equipment and supplies impounded.

Literally every developers western country that bans guns has not seen any noticeable rise in homemade guns being used at any regular pace. In what world do you think Norwegian clubs are being shot up with homemade uzis?

Abolishing the police is an overly broad demand that can’t really be taken that seriously as an actual, society wide, legislative course of action.

That being said, it might still be worth advocating for as a matter of negotiation, and it’s worth abolishing many specific existing police forces and replacing them whole cloth with new professional forces.

And no, gun ownership should not be allowed. It’s fucking asinine to think that the world will be a better place when you allow anyone to point and click murder someone on a whim.

Guess what happens when you let good people buy guns? Bad people buy them more frequently, and in greater quantities.

Guess what happens when you challenge your local government’s use of force with you own personal cache of weapons? Oh look, every police force in the country just bought APCs and militarized to make that infeasible.

You’ll still always need hunting rifles, shotguns, etc. and you will likely need to have special circumstances where someone or their security guard can get a firearm for exigent circumstances, but by and large the idea of allowing widespread firearm ownership for personal defense reasons is nonsense. All of the arguments fall apart when you examine their effects at a systemic level.

You do not need handguns. Handguns are the biggest problem.

Try living somewhere that’s not America for a minute.

Yes it will. The idea thaat criminals will mass produce homemade firearms is nonsense. Even the cartels don’t do this at any scale.

I’m Toronto it’s like 13% of guns that are domestic, the other 87% are smuggled in from the unregulated shithole that is America, 0% are homemade.