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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by majormajor on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:55PM (#28557464)
This is the kind of mindset that, in a country with a lot of guns, could lead people to start taking up arms against a government that most of the population doesn't want to overthrow, a population that largely thinks here-and-now topics like abortion or the everyday effects of racism or the public health effects of COVID are more important than ideological claims about how the country is now more "against the populace" than it supposedly was 50, 100, etc, years ago.

This is not a good thing. Are you really suggesting you might use a gun to force your fellow citizens to care about the same aspects of government that you do, instead of the ones they're currently focused on? When convincing your fellow voters and elected officials fail, you believe you have a right to resort to violence?

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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by clairity on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:00PM (#28558897)
well yes, just as humans have for our whole history. but you’ve framed it as a false dichotomy, that i mean we must revolt at any slight, but that’s a disingenuous framing. it should be a last resort, just as our government should resort last to force, whether internally or externally.
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