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Trump v. Greenland (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 4 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

You are allowed guns but the reason that you have for owning a gun has to be a little bit more than "because I want one".

Also the decision about whether or not you get a gun is up to local police. And they can deny you for any reason they like including that they know you to be a frequent flyer.

But really it's more about the fact that people aren't really interested in guns outside the US. In the US they are a cultural thing, outside they are just a tool but a useful to have if you need to make use of that tool. I don't own a gun for the same reason that I don't own a quad bike, I'm not a farmer and I live in the city, so I don't need one.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    You are allowed guns

    Which would be a red line for Americans who think that guns are an inherent right and that the very idea that the government might be able to say "no" is unacceptable.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    You are allowed guns but the reason that you have for owning a gun has to be a little bit more than “because I want one”.

    Yeah, I don't like that and I don't even own a gun. I don't think governments should have a monopoly on violence or the tools of violence.

    With the exception of nukes, but mostly because I don't think anyone should have those. If only governments have them though at least they have some level of self interest to not nuke their own population.

    Then again I'm pretty nihilistic these days, maybe I'm ok with the McNuke now. As long as I'm instantly vaporized if one goes off, I don't want to experience the black rain and slow agonizing radiation death.

    I also don't think its the government's business should I decide to buy a gun what I intend to do with it. Will I ever buy one? Probably not. But still, principle of the thing.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    I also don't think its the government's business should I decide to buy a gun what I intend to do with it.

    Personally I feel that if you're buying a gun someone should know why, and who else better than the government?

    You already ID people for buying knives, and you limit how many packs of painkillers people can purchase. I don't see why it's necessarily any different for a gun.

    Do you know what violent people who do not have access to guns are? Extremely annoying. That it. Then you called the police who come and deal with them. There are so many idiots that are still alive today who's drunken escapades would have got them shot in the United States rather than a stint in the cells to sober up.

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