• HalfSalesman@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    You are allowed guns but the reason that you have for owning a gun has to be a little bit more than “because I want one”.

    Yeah, I don’t like that and I don’t even own a gun. I don’t think governments should have a monopoly on violence or the tools of violence.

    With the exception of nukes, but mostly because I don’t think anyone should have those. If only governments have them though at least they have some level of self interest to not nuke their own population.

    Then again I’m pretty nihilistic these days, maybe I’m ok with the McNuke now. As long as I’m instantly vaporized if one goes off, I don’t want to experience the black rain and slow agonizing radiation death.

    I also don’t think its the government’s business should I decide to buy a gun what I intend to do with it. Will I ever buy one? Probably not. But still, principle of the thing.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      1 hour ago

      I also don’t think its the government’s business should I decide to buy a gun what I intend to do with it.

      Personally I feel that if you’re buying a gun someone should know why, and who else better than the government?

      You already ID people for buying knives, and you limit how many packs of painkillers people can purchase. I don’t see why it’s necessarily any different for a gun.

      Do you know what violent people who do not have access to guns are? Extremely annoying. That it. Then you called the police who come and deal with them. There are so many idiots that are still alive today who’s drunken escapades would have got them shot in the United States rather than a stint in the cells to sober up.