• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Well, those people are fucking stupid, and I don’t intend to adjust my worldview to accommodate their stupidity. Same as the majority of Americans who believe in a magical man in the sky: The majority of people believing an obvious lie will never make the lie true, or the vile things they justify with that lie truly just.

    If the AR-15 is the same as every other gun, someone needs to explain the reason why it is overwhelmingly the weapon of choice for mass shooters if they want that argument to be taken seriously.

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      5 months ago

      It’s cheap and plentiful and shoots cheap ammo. That’s it. It’s the Honda civic of guns.

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      5 months ago

      You’ve bought the hype. Only something like 4% of guns deaths are from long guns, of which the AR-15 is a subset. The Virginia Tech shooter got most of his kills with a .22 handgun. Shouldn’t you be railing against pistols?

      Also, the AR-15 has been around for civilian purchase since 1964. Isn’t it odd how quickly, and how suddenly, it became popular? Maybe because the Democrats banned it? And if there’s anything people want, it’s what they can’t have. Remember Columbine? Funny how mass shooters suddenly discovered the weapon at that time. And that leads us to…

      AR-15s make headlines. Remember that nut in Maine last year or so? Isn’t it odd that none of the headlines mentioned the sort of gun used? I mean, if it had been an AR-15, that fact would have been splattered everywhere, because it always is. Took me a minute to find it when the story came out, but it was an AR-10. Huh. Guess that doesn’t get people’s juices flowing.

      I’m sure you’re aware that most media in the US is owned by a couple of corporations and billionaires. Could it be that the oligarchs want us disarmed? Too much tinfoil on my hat?