• MaeBorowski [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    What don't you get? You told me that a gun is insuffucient against a paramilitary group. I agree. But do you think that a paramilitary group is the only threat I might face as an individual where I might want to defend myself?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      What don’t you get?

      Why you're being deliberately dense.

      do you think that a paramilitary group is the only threat I might face as an individual where I might want to defend myself?

      Are you hoping for an honor duel at high noon? Are you planning on winning a game of quick draw? Or are you hoping to wake up in the dead of night and peg an intruder right between the eyes on instinct?

      Without other people around, you're vulnerable. All the guns in the world won't change that.

      • MaeBorowski [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Why you’re being deliberately dense

        Wtf?? You responded with the jesse-wtf emoji so I took that to mean you didn't understand my response. So I explained it. Why are you being an asshole to me, I've said nothing even remotely mean spirited or in bad faith to you.

        Are you hoping for an honor duel at high noon? Are you planning on winning a game of quick draw? Or are you hoping to wake up in the dead of night and peg an intruder right between the eyes on instinct?

        First of all, I'm not just speaking for me but for any vulnerable person who has a high likelihood of being attacked. Would you mock a trans woman or a black woman who has to walk home at night in a town full of transphobes and white supremacists from wanting to protect herself from being another victim of a hate crime?

        Without other people around, you’re vulnerable. All the guns in the world won’t change that.

        This is literally not true. You really think there have never been instances where a person alone with a gun was able to save themselves with it? That just doesn't happen ever? Do you think there have never been instances where a person ended up the victim of a hate crime that might not have been had they been armed? If so, I don't know what else to say other that it's disappointing to me that a name I used to have a lot of respect for here on hexbear is still so infected with liberal :brainworms: