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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago (13 children)

"Defensive gun use" is horseshit. Statistics clearly show that owning a gun increases the risk that anyone in the household (including children) will die by homicide, suicide or unintentional injuries. The amount of successful defensive uses of a gun pales in comparison to the number of preventable injuries and deaths that gun ownership brings.

[–] 5wim -3 points 1 week ago (11 children)

If you actually looked at the statistics, you'd know that's not the case. Defensive gun use is not horseshit, but being a privileged liberal is.

Guns are a tool of equality for all manner of marginalized and dispossessed people.

How frightening it is that the statistical likelihood of accidental injury goes up for a family when a parent goes from carless to owning a car. It's bullshit that we don't have ubiquitous, safe public transit, but it's also bullshit to demonize the most effective tool for the family's to thrive in capitalism.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (9 children)
[–] 5wim -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yikes capitalist apologist liberals get real mask off around guns

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh look another bootlicker for the gun industry.

[–] 5wim -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, just like Guevara, and the anarcho-syndicalists of the CNT, we care for nothing more than the corporations? The fuck. Get class conscious, you're clearly a boot-licking liberal

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Listen, gun manufacturers pushing death on our society is not about class solidarity. Keep telling yourself that as you lick their boots.

[–] 5wim -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Buddy, eventually you'll realize the "gun manufacturers" rhetoric is propogated by the (owned) media to muddy the waters in yet another artificially identarian scheme by the bourgeoisie.

Why? To create division, like all machinations of identity politics. But also to plant seeds that short-circuit the logic of the armed proletariat with emotions.

"Pushing death" is transferred culpability, absolving individuals of moral agency. The fact that arms manufacturers lobby the corrupt government to create warzones and kill innocents should make you mad at the people allowing that the happen, maybe even mad enough to arm yourself.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh wow that is a new one, did you just make that up.

Mad enough to buy weapons to arm myself to kill my fellow Americans? Hard pass.

[–] 5wim -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The liberal can't fathom needing to fight, we're shocked

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Take your defense fantasy somewhere else, I don't approve of mental illness.

[–] 5wim 0 points 1 week ago

Liberal doesn't "approve of mental illness" lol that tracks, speaking the language of such empathy. Be gone with your capitalist defense replies to my comment.

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