• kromem@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The US could be such a nice place…

    Not really. You’d still have way too many stupid and hateful people.

    They’d just be slightly less dangerous stupid and hateful people.

    (And yes, I do mean slightly, but am not going to go more into details of the other methodology with much higher body counts that the hatred of small minded folks have taken over the years.)

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      6 months ago

      Not really. You’d still have way too many stupid and hateful people.

      I’d gladly take an unarmed stupid, hateful people over this

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      6 months ago

      And yes, I do mean slightly, but am not going to go more into details of the other methodology with much higher body counts that the hatred of small minded folks have taken over the years

      Apologist bullshit. There is no reality where this man threatens an Uber driver with a truck bomb. Even when talking about domestic terrorism, bombs are far more effort with far more risk, which is why they’re not already used.

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      6 months ago

      They’d just be slightly less dangerous stupid and hateful people.

      Which is the point?

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      6 months ago

      I dunno, I reckon they’d be a lot quieter if there’s an actual danger of physical harm to themselves.

      Guns make people too eager to do crazy shit. You’re not going to try to force somebody out of their car with a flick-knife.

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        6 months ago

        You’re not going to try to force somebody out of their car with a flick-knife

        In countries that don’t just give guns to anyone who can write their name, carjacking is functionally unheard of. It’s just not a crime that happens. If the criminal doesn’t have a gun, you can just drive away.