• JimSamtanko@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I don’t think there’s a lot of people on the left that are huge AR-15 fans. We’d be fine without it.

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      4 months ago

      I think you’d be more wrong than you think. As they say, “If you go far enough left you get your guns back.”

      Not to mention moderates of both parties who are gun owners in suburban and rural areas of many of the battleground states he so desperately needs.

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        4 months ago

        As someone outside the US this circular debate about US citizens needing guns, because constitution is crazy. We’re over halfway through the year and the US is on track to break annual records, for gun deaths. Yet nothing happens because guns are constitutionality protected. It’s just crazy to an outsider to see absolutely nothing happen as a result. Boom more dead children, thoughts, nothing, boom more dead people. But if only we could do something, boom, more dead children, sigh, yeah but it’s the law. We must protect ourselves from bears. Boom more dead people. Silence.

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          4 months ago

          Have you seen how we treat driving in this country? Guns aren’t the problem, a culture of callous disregard for other humans is, and we’re not going to fix that by trying to take guns away.

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        4 months ago

        Well, if the what you call the “left” makes all-encompassing blanket statements, then no- I’m not left. I’m a liberal though- and I don’t know anyone that thinks AR-15s are necessary to anyone.