• balerion@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Because when you recommend that people arm themselves, you are talking to us too. Mental illness is much more common than you think, and becoming even more common as late capitalism exacerbates the conditions which produce some forms of mental illness. Moreover, mental illness can hit at any time. Someone who showed no symptoms of mental illness before can snap one day and commit suicide or murder their family. When you recklessly recommend that people buy guns, you are increasing the likelihood that someone will commit suicide or homicide, due to mental illness or otherwise.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’d recommend people do whatever it is that they want to do, given that they understand the dangers.

      I would like to own a firearm, not for my safety so I’d probably keep it at the gun range, but I know that I am not mentally stable so I don’t go and get a firearm, I could but nothing anyone will say is going to stop me if I actually wanted to buy one.

      My recommendation for people to arm themselves isn’t going to encourage to or dissuade anyone from doing so. They already fear for their lives and they have a right to own them so who am I to say that that shouldn’t? Jesus Christ?

      You sound like my mother.

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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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          1 year ago

          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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            1 year ago

            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?