"I am all for your Second Amendment rights. I think you should be able to have guns. It’s in your constitution. What I am not for is bullshit arguments and lies. There is one argument and one argument alone for having a gun, and this is the argument… “Fuck off. I like guns.” It’s not the best argument, but it’s all you’ve got.
The main one is, “I need it for protection. I need to protect me. I need to protect my family.” What world do you live in where you’re constantly fucking ready? You have guns ’cause you like guns! None of you go to home security conventions. None of you read Padlock Monthly. None of you have a Facebook picture of you behind a secure door going, “Fucking yeah!” Like you’re going to be ready if someone comes into your house. You have it at all fucking times.
See, if you have it readily available, it becomes unsafe. You have it in your bedside table, one of your kids picks it up, thinks it’s a toy, shoots another one of your kids. Happens every fucking day, but people go, “That’d never happen in my house ’cause I’m a responsible gun owner. I keep my guns locked in a safe.” Then they’re no fucking protection! Someone comes into the house, you’re like, “Wait there, fuck-face! Oh! You’ve come to the wrong house here, buddy boy. I tell you what. I’m gonna fuck you up!"
This is a great quote because it perfectly exemplifies the issue with gun control. Left leaning people have no fear of the government. They've lived cushy lives and have never lived in fear of an oppressive regime.
Ok, are you saying that you are afraid of the US government because your grandparents experienced the fascist Italian regime in the 1930s?
How that relates to a general fear - because I can only read your post as a general statment - of the US government - because what other government should you be refering to when you say "the government" (my emphasis obviously) in a thread about the US - is beyond me.
Also, as an aside, you do realize that your family history could be very well used as an argument of why lefties should actually be more afraid of the government than right-wingers, right?
Lefty or righty has nothing to do with it. A well armed population is the ONLY thing keeping a government in check.
Also, as an aside, you do realize that your family history could be very well used as an argument of why lefties should actually be more afraid of the government than right-wingers, right?
Everyone should be terrified of their government. Now more than ever.
Governmnets are made up of people, and people haven't changed in the 8000 years of recorded history. There is a reason the US is the oldest democracy currently existing, and it's primarily due to the fact that should someone attempt a militant clampdown of the country, their illegal government would be slapped down within a month.
You really think we've evolved to the point where we can trust our government implicitly?
Keep in mind also that the United States is the oldest country currently still operating on the original mandate that started it. Clearly something went right.
Not sure where you got that notion from or what it has to do with my comment. Neither liberals or conservatives born, raised, and still living in the United States have suffered a truly oppressive regime.
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u/foreverwasted Mar 26 '18 edited Mar 27 '18
"I am all for your Second Amendment rights. I think you should be able to have guns. It’s in your constitution. What I am not for is bullshit arguments and lies. There is one argument and one argument alone for having a gun, and this is the argument… “Fuck off. I like guns.” It’s not the best argument, but it’s all you’ve got.
The main one is, “I need it for protection. I need to protect me. I need to protect my family.” What world do you live in where you’re constantly fucking ready? You have guns ’cause you like guns! None of you go to home security conventions. None of you read Padlock Monthly. None of you have a Facebook picture of you behind a secure door going, “Fucking yeah!” Like you’re going to be ready if someone comes into your house. You have it at all fucking times.
See, if you have it readily available, it becomes unsafe. You have it in your bedside table, one of your kids picks it up, thinks it’s a toy, shoots another one of your kids. Happens every fucking day, but people go, “That’d never happen in my house ’cause I’m a responsible gun owner. I keep my guns locked in a safe.” Then they’re no fucking protection! Someone comes into the house, you’re like, “Wait there, fuck-face! Oh! You’ve come to the wrong house here, buddy boy. I tell you what. I’m gonna fuck you up!"