• @finkrat
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    181 year ago

    This highlights a weird side effect of weapons rights. The right to own weapons by the citizens to protect themselves from government tyranny, combined with the need for law enforcement to arm themselves adequately against heavily armed citizens breaking the law, becomes an arms race between the citizens and their country, with whoever is better funded being the winner.

    Telling the citizens to drop their weapons doesn’t mean the cops drop theirs. Telling the cops to stop arming themselves against citizens just sends them to their death during confrontations.

    I suggest we all go play video games instead

    • @Noodle07
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      61 year ago

      But didn’t you hear? Video games is the root cause of all of this!

      • ZeroTemp
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        61 year ago

        Yep there were never shootings before violent video games.

      • @dx1
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        1 year ago

        Most of that hysteria was about GTA, which in hindsight is really a pretty deep satire of the violent American mentality. Kinda the classic “freaking out about how we should censor a creative work we don’t understand” thing.

    • @jarfil
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      21 year ago

      arms race between the citizens and their country, with whoever is better funded being the winner.

      The real winner, are weapon manufacturers.