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    3 months ago

    Been working out so well with around 50k Americans dying every year needlessly. We are also clocking in at around one thousand child deaths every year. Japan had zero child deaths from guns this year, and the last, and the last, ad nauseam.

    I know you gun nutters love your defense fantasies, but arming the gays isn’t going to solve any problems and will result in more dead people

    We already have more guns than people. How many moar guns until we are finally safe!?

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      3 months ago

      But we’re not talking specifically about protecting children here, I’d agree with you that less guns are better to those ends. For fighting fascism though? It took a lot of gun deaths to unseat Hitler and Mussolini

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        Sure in a hypothetical alternate reality where the only way to defeat evil is to shoot it. Unfortunately we live in the real world and it just means more dead people.

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          Maybe I’m feeling cornered, vulnerable, angry, as is often the case with these things. But how do you suggest we protect ourselves and our allies from an evil that strengthens itself off of your sickness, your hunger, your homelessness, and has absolutely no qualms about meeting you with violence and coming up with an excuse later?

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            I would not suggest purchasing a gun if you are feeling cornered, vulnerable, and angry. Fear is the mind killer.

            I would suggest reaching out to others, talking, getting political, and organizing.

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                Why stop there, surely there is something worse. Perhaps a personal nuclear weapon. Nothing too big of course, but just big enough to let’s say make everyone regret having messed with you.

                Think what a civil society would develop if everyone had one of these. On a side note, I am taking investments on a hot new uranium mine prospect.

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                    What is the right time though. Would it be on a Friday for maximum shock or on a Monday so the news would have all week to discuss it.

                    And who are these people who would sing the praises. Most of all what did Mar a Lago do to deserve this. Maybe they hovered their finger over the “button” looking menacingly at you.

                    But yes, we all like noble deeds and to be known for centuries sounds great. Have you ever thought of opening up your own suicide bomber school.

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            3 months ago

            Trumpers killed exactly zero gays today. Meanwhile over one hundred Americans died of gun violence including a couple of children.

            This is the difference between your fantasy and my reality.