• auzy@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I know you got downvoted, but in other countries and anywhere other than lemmy, the US and truth social, this is actually normal

    It’s crazy that extremist groups like the NRA have managed to brainwash so many Americans

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      8 hours ago

      Oh I know what I was getting into by commenting on their post. I will gladly take downvotes from gun nutters.

      I appreciate what you say though because in the US it seems easy to question your sanity at times.

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        6 hours ago

        Yep… Whats crazy, is that literally a few months ago, everyone was pointing out how weird the nutters on the right wing are. And how rediculous the gun nuts are

        Now, somehow, there seems to have been some kind of concerted campaign that have made a lot of these people start to act exactly like the extreme right, where shooting seemingly anyone you don’t like is apparently “ok”. But at least a lot of those guys tied them to random conspiracy theories, whereas, what I’m seeing suddenly by some people on the left, is basically just blatant wanting to kill certain people

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          4 hours ago

          Well gun supporters have been at war with the truth for a long time. People I call gun nutters have an unhealthy obsession with guns. They keep them unsecured and loaded and like to fantasize about killing people in “self defense”.

          America’s obsession with guns definitely cuts both ways but when you compare the left and right wing 95% of attacks come from the right. It is an unfortunate reality but the people who we can least trust are the ones who are the most for guns.

          Really though this is a problem of regulation. Commercial interests have manipulated people into buying tools they don’t need which are misused and cause untold suffering.