• @[email protected]
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    -183 months ago

    That would instantly start a civil war, and if you’re keeping track, we don’t have any/as many guns.

    • @Carrick1973
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      193 months ago

      Speak for yourself, and if you don’t, you should really look into buying them. We’re not heading towards a happy place in this country.

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      3 months ago

      That’s a personal problem. The people paying attention and most at risk have been arming themselves since 2015. LGBTQ, Black, and Hispanic gun ownership are the fastest rising ones. Trailing them is more white people, whos rate of gun ownership is also rising, just slower. Eveyones been buying more guns.

    • @Adalast
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      -113 months ago

      I don’t own guns. I own glass bottles. They are far more effective weapons when wielded correctly. A single glass bottle can do more damage than a thousand bullets.

      • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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        33 months ago

        This is like Charlie with his sword talking to Mac with his gun

        • @Adalast
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          -13 months ago

          No, it is not. It really is not. Because Charlie is smart enough to fill the glass bottle and use it while Mac sleeps.

          • Lightor
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            13 months ago

            You called Charlie smart, which worries me lol

            • @Adalast
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              13 months ago

              That is because I don’t know to what you are referring. I was simply turning the statement around.

              • Lightor
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                13 months ago

                It’s a joke about the character Charlie in IASIP.

      • Lightor
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        23 months ago

        I don’t own glass bottles. I own garden gnomes. They are far more effective weapons when wielded correctly. A single garden gnome can do more damage than a thousand glass bottles.

        • @Adalast
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          -13 months ago

          It is astonishing how few people know how to correctly deal damage with a glass bottle. It is not about the glass, it is about what it is filled with. Now I am smarter than to explicitly state anything in an open forum online that could constituted unprotected speech, not that that holds much water. Speaking of, the bottles are not filled with water.

          • Lightor
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            13 months ago

            Yah, the garden gnomes aren’t filled with water either.

      • @Adalast
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        -13 months ago

        Wow, so many down votes. Either people don’t understand or they are against historically useful anarchic ordinance. Seriously people, if we have any hope of dealing with these problems we need to take some cues from some Ukrainian grandmothers circa 2 to 3 years ago regarding the proper and artful application of glass.

        • Lightor
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          13 months ago

          Wait, I thought we were all kidding. Please tell me your not serious…

          • @Adalast
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            03 months ago

            “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” ~ Burke, “Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770)

            ‘They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.’ ~Franklin

            I will not be the one to cast the first stone, but I will also not sit silently by as the safety of my family is threatened. I have studied our history, I have studied our present, and I will not let another Crystal Noct occur without absolute retribution. This citizen will take the second amendment and its intended purpose of allowing the people to protect themselves from despots, tyrants, and autocrats who attempt to sunder the fabric of this democracy. I will meet force with overwhelming retaliation, if possible, so much that they think twice before attempting again.

            “Knocking him down was the first fight, I wanted to win all the others, so they’d leave me alone.” ~ Ender, Ender’s Game (2013)

            • Lightor
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              Cool. I love sci-fi books.