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[โ€“] glorkon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

European here. I will never even be remotely able to understand the fascination Americans have with guns and the normalization that goes with it.

To me, guns are tools that have no positive use. Firing a bullet at some target cannot accomplish anything useful, and worst case, it will do harm. So in your picture, I cannot see anything I could ever feel some kind of love for. It's as irrational and weird to me as loving a nuclear bomb.

Trying to take guns away from Americans is like trying to convince Germans to accept a speed limit on autobahns - it's become a sacrosanct right so ingrained in people's minds that no matter the cost, they will not allow it to be taken away from them.

Humans are weird.

[โ€“] Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Sorry you feel that way. I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise, but we can say the exact same thing for a lot of hobbies (golf, soccer/football, other environmental damaging hobbies).

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