I lose my cool when people say the same old lib talking points about how awful mass shootings are and how we need "common sense" gun control. It's the combination of smarmy :maybe-later-honey: :maybe-later-kiddo: attitude and unwillingness to consider the implications of policy, or the history of similar disarming of leftists and vulnerable groups. So I get a little hot and I bully them. Then, they play the "actually I'm [member of vulnerable group] " or "my sibling died to gun violence" card. Great so now I'm an asshole.

Am I wrong to bully people for shallow thinking and smug attitudes. Do I stoop to their style of rhetoric playing up atrocities like the Shanghai Massacre of disarmed leftists by the KMT or how cops kill and abuse black people with impunity after disarming the Black Panthers with the Mulford Act? These fools think these cops will protect us? It's so frustrating.

idk maybe they're just radlibs in leftist spaces

    • Dr_Gabriel_Aby [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Again, I can’t find any statistics on successfully prevented shootings by another person having a concealed handgun. There is no “Mexican Standoff” statistics. I can find statistics on concealed handguns being the murder weapon in over 60% of murders. So your feeling that it can protect you is all it is. At current moment, there is more evidence that concealed handguns do more harm than good in my eyes.