i gotta admit that i don't really know how i feel about all this stuff; having lived in big cities all my life, i've never known someone who cares about guns or is not too anti-gun, so while I've read online about it, i've never personally heard a positive pro-gun case
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RT @orthonormalist
What's that? It's the sound of my willingness to support American hegemony weakening. https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1380190752886550529
https://twitter.com/orthonormalist/status/1380223251633213445
i do believe in the abstract right to defend yourself without having to rely entirely on the govt, i care about the delegation of certain powers and the ability to retain certain liberties
& i know there are many lifestyles other than mine for which guns are much more important
but i'm not really sure how to reconcile the abstract libertarian ideal of being able to defend yourself, your family, and your property, with the very real issues of massive gun violence in the US, on a scale larger than basically anywhere else in the world
some possible answers are that its not about guns so much as cultural heterogeneity, that the US is too big, that its due to a weaponry asymmetry & if everyone was armed this wouldnt happen. maybe, idk.
i'd really love to see the positive case for gun ownership clearly laid out
&, laid out in such a way that acknowledges the mass shooting problem in some way (even as a WONTFIX), with context-aware exemptions made based on density (ideally), for inner cities (and the like)
@orthonormalist, @eigenrobot, @PstafarianPrice, whoever else
links are great too