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Re:March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting ... by zepto on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @12:25PM (#22879666)
The biggest problem I see with being anti-gun, isn’t the desire to have a less fearful or violent society.

It’s that anti-gun positions generally are not at all anti-gun they are anti-private individual, but happy for the state to use guns, and thus to be the sole arbiter of who is defended and who is defenseless.

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Re:March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting ... by rhizome on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @06:23PM (#22883808)
>positions generally are not at all anti-gun they are anti-private individual

Well that's definitely a stream of apophasis that doesn't address my question, but maybe we can save it if you describe where you draw the line between anti-gun and "anti-private individual." IME they are always conflated within the discourse.

If you're implying a hypocrisy in supporting police having guns but people not, I don't agree, but even without that I'm fine if all guns go away. Does that now make my question answerable for you?

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Re:March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting ... by zepto on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @09:38PM (#22885227)
I’m indeed implying the hypocrisy. I’m also fine with all guns going away. However nobody who is anti-gun is suggesting that in reality.

I guess it all depends on how much you trust your government and police. Anti-gun sentiment seem to be about forcing the views of those who have reason to trust them, onto those who don’t, at gunpoint no less.

That seems wrong to me.

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