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    1 year ago

    Gun nut here, and I absolutely don’t think a book can make you gay, nor do I know a single person that’s actually that ignorant. So no, not checkmate.

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        1 year ago

        If that’s true, that’s sad. But just don’t get trapped into the mindset that ignorance is in any way tied to left/right or guns, no relationship there. Ignorance is its own disease.

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          Thank you. Rest assured, I understand that. Ignorance is just a lack of information. It’s a symptom. It’s more important to understand the root causes that propagate it, so we can counter them.

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      You seem to smart to be a gun nut (just saying). Maybe you’re one of the few I would actually trust to own a gun and never misuse it. That is a very small percentage of folks on this planet.

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        See, but that’s just the problem right there. Why are you correlating being a gun but with intelligence? The answer is because one side of the argument sets out to do exactly that. Tens of millions of gun owners are highly educated college graduates, doctors, lawyers, and of course normal people. The image of some trailer living uneducated middle school redneck that has a bunch of guns is a punchline used by people that hate guns for no reason other than their own lack of knowledge on the subject. Same people that think an AR-15 is what the military is using, or that “assault weapons” are a thing and don’t realize its a political term that refers to jokes of festures that in no way makes a rifle more deadly. Its insane. People are way to quick to take info from biased sources, and assume that vocal minoirties on both sides are a representation of the masses. They’re not.

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          I don’t, believe me. I do not correlate being a gun nut with intelligence, I’m only saying in this one case this guy is smart enough to see through some of the fakery the right wing nuts are trying to foist on this country. I’m as anti-gun as anybody could be, I’d sooner have a rabid hyena running loose in my house than EVER own a gun, I even campaigned to have a neighbor’s gun taken away as he would often wear it and wave it around. I think guns are horrible, and that there is something wrong with anyone who is attracted to them.

          Ar-15 rifle or any other weapon - there should be no reason any intelligent person would ever want to be around one. They are only designed to cause death in the most painful and gory way. That’s all they are for. There is no other purpose to a gun.

          So people who find that attractive are telling me they are batshit insane and willing to kill someone, and have no attack of conscience about it at all. And that truly is horrifying beyond the ability of the human language to express in mere words.

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            Well, not into guns or not, it’s sad you’re coming from a place of such illogical bias. That’s the reason the guns conversation can almost never be had by rationale adults on both sides, and why it always end with childish back and forth.

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              No it isn’t sad, it’s only sad to you because you dislike hearing the truth so much. And that’s on you, not me. I’m all kinds of glad about my beliefs, and the first one to put myself on a higher horse than others. Only because you people put yourselves on such low ones. I see your need to label any argument you don’t like as “illogical” as the real hallmark of sadness. But I suspect you’re young and don’t know much yet about what really matters in life.

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                LOL, “Truth” ie: your opinion. Thanks for proving my point.

                I’m all kinds of glad about my beliefs, and the first one to put myself on a higher horse than others.

                So on top of that, your head is up your ass as well, interesting. People who think theyre better than others that they don’t even know are called assholes.

                I see your need to label any argument you don’t like as “illogical”

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            I think guns are horrible, and that there is something wrong with anyone who is attracted to them.

            Ther’s that incredible bias at play again…

            Ar-15 rifle or any other weapon - there should be no reason any intelligent person would ever want to be around one. They are only designed to cause death in the most painful and gory way. That’s all they are for. There is no other purpose to a gun.

            So the hundreds of millions of rounds into targets, hunting, sport, clay shooting don’t have a purpose? That’s a non-debatable fail.

            So people who find that attractive are telling me they are batshit insane and willing to kill someone, and have no attack of conscience about it at all.

            So your answer to all the millions that own guns their whole lives and have never killed anybody? Who are you to speak of what’s on another persons’ conscience? Sorry pal, the only one that’s batshit insane here is you. You’re totally off the handle with overly dramatic delusions.

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              Owning a gun is horrible and people who want them are horrible. I have nothing more to say about this at all. What you think is not of any interest to me.

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                Which you don’t know, and can’t back. You have zero idea how people are, just more talking out of your ass. What’s great is that you’re statiscally surrounded by people with guns everywhere you go. gun ownership in the US has been climbing at record speeds in all states since Obama. I hope your side is proud, because you’re the ones to did that! Thanks!

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        1 year ago

        Hopefully you’re referring to the actual Moms for Liberty, and not the spinoff of a fake Nazi group that’s meant to appear to be them.