• balerion@beehaw.org
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    My recommendation for people to arm themselves isn’t going to encourage to or dissuade anyone from doing so.

    Then literally why say it?

    they have a right to own them

    Yeah, and maybe they shouldn’t. There’s lots of dangerous shit you have no right to possess. Guns should be in that category. And for the record, I don’t believe the government should be sending armed people to enforce shit either.

    You sound like my mother.

    Smart woman.

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      Where in my original comment did I say that, in general, I recommend that people purchase firearms?

      Even if they shouldn’t, that’s what the government is for, not me. Exercise the rights you have, you nor I have the authority to tell people otherwise.

      Anything else is fascism and I’d rather not be hypocritical in my beliefs.

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        You heavily implied that people of color, at least, should purchase firearms.

        What? When the government tells you what your rights are that’s good and normal, but when a random person tells you what your rights are that’s fascism? Nothing about that makes any sense at all.

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          Heavily implied? So you’re assuming that I’m making a generalization without actually having made said generalization?

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            sigh

            Alright, what WAS I supposed to take from your post if not “minorities should arm themselves”?

            I will also note that you did not initially deny that you had been making such a recommendation.

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              Why should I have to deny anything when I fully believe that this line of questioning was pulled out of thin air? I’ll note, that you did not simply ask if this is the generalization I was making and the these statements make very little sense.

              What part of “people not needing to purchase firearms because of hate and discrimination being ludicrous” is hard to get? Obviously, not everyone needs to have a firearm but to say to someone that things like racial discrimination are not reason to arm yourself is ludicrous.

              Shit, people will walk into an LGBTQ+ friendly club and start shooting.

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                you are saying that discrimination is a reason to arm yourself. people are being discriminated against. therefore, you are saying people should arm themselves. what about this is so hard to understand?

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                  Apparently it is hard for you to understand that not everyone generalizes populations to such an extreme extent as you.

                  You’re assuming the meaning of the statement and all you had to do was ask for clarification but I suppose you never really wanted clarification.