Giving away some games - everything must go! https://lemmy.world/post/40619538

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  • BenLeMan@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldOptical illusion
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    18 days ago

    Unfortunately this man is not the issue. It’s the culture that allows him to do what he is doing. Everybody knows who he is and what he stands for. But he’s still not dangling from the gallows, so clearly the system has failed to correct itself.

    He will die eventually, probably from one hamberder too many but the troubles won’t be over then.



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    18 days ago

    Are you saying you’re suffering a dearth of targets?

    Again, if this is not the time to exercise your supposed God-given right to bear arms to ward off a tyrannical government then the whole point of the 2nd Amendment is moot.

    I’ve said it before: You guys aren’t going to vote your way out of this pickle. I hate to say this (sincerely!) but this is going to end in violence one way or another. 🙁



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    19 days ago

    I get the point the comic is trying to make, but saying that more guns means more people die from guns isn’t really a “gotcha”… In places with fewer guns, fewer people are using guns to do their murderings.

    Fair point but see below…

    I’d be more interested in a graph that shows total murders per capita compared to gun ownership per capita.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

    The United States has over 4 times more murders per capita than France, for instance.

    And you really shouldn’t discount just how easy it is to kill someone with a gun. I don’t have the stats at hand right now but knife related killings (as an example) are way less likely to happen because victims have a comparatively good chance to survive a knife attack.

    There are solid reasons for keeping weapons that are designed to kill human beings out of the hands of most of us.


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    19 days ago

    So where is the well-regulated militia defending the United States with their huge arsenal of guns? We’re not hearing anything about valiant protectors of the constitution taking up arms against the domestic enemies that are ICE, MAGA, etc…it’s almost as if the whole spiel about needing guns to resist a tyrannical government was BS all along. 🤔