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Re:The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity (2018) by post_break on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @02:22PM (#29017037)
Amish are strapped. They have lots of guns. They also have a lot of abuse that they sweep under the rug.
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Re:The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity (2018) by guenthert on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:15PM (#29017747)
Citation needed. Pacifism is one of their basic tenets (actually rejection of violence is).
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Re:The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity (2018) by post_break on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:35PM (#29018031)
The amish owned gun stores I've shopped in, the guns they use for hunting, the lawsuits against the NY SAFE act or trying to buy guns without a photo ID. Just because they practice pacifism does not mean they are against guns, owning them, using, etc. You can't think for a second if someone attacked them they wouldn't use them to defend themselves.
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Re:The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity (2018) by logosmonkey on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:34PM (#29018019)
They still hunt. I know because I spoke with a young Amish man a couple of weeks ago about it. He was out bow hunting because muzzle loading season hadn't started yet. I don't know if they have more modern guns though, I didn't ask that far.

Also see https://amishamerica.com/do-amish-use-guns/

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Re:The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity (2018) by zepto on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @04:57PM (#29019013)
You may as well say that rejection of violence is a basic tenet of Americans too, given that violence is outlawed except in the case of self-defense.
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Re:The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity (2018) by klyrs on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @05:04PM (#29019112)
On domestic abuse: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797804404/investigation-into-...
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