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Gun Control Reform Activism

no_hypocrisy

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1. I agree. It's as simple as you have weapons and it's a matter of time before you use them.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Nov 25, 2022, 08:09 AM

Nov 2022

Gun owners have different and similar reasons for needing to have guns, rifles, and AK-15s.

Paranoid and real fears of defending oneself and/or family as they don't believe police can protect them sufficiently or at all.

The Freudian theory of equating guns with manhood and attendant organs.

Having weapons allows you to threaten someone who doesn't have weapons. (That's a way to "win" an argument when intellect fails.)

And the hackneyed excuse to overthrow a democratically elected government when there are more people who choose candidates that they like over those you like.

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I agree. It's as simple as you have weapons and it's a matter of time before you use them. no_hypocrisy Nov 2022 #1