Easy access to arms WITHOUT rigour, training and monitoring leads to savage atrocities. Some clowns will highlight European countries with a similar gun ownership rate, but then fail to understand why we don’t have those same atrocities.
I can save a pro-gun cultist the effort and just fill in this comment chain in advance:
Cultist: “Shall not be infringed”
Sane people: “Well regulated”
Cultist: "Well regulated doesn’t mean subjected to regulations like background checks and not hitting your wife, it means well-functioning, like a watch
Sane people: “It’s not that either. Your militia has no training or physical fitness standards, may never had to demonstrate safe and competent handling of their weapon and has an open contempt for the chain of command”
Cultist: “No but its a mental health problem”
Sane people: “Okay, sounds like gun owners should be have to undergo a mandatory mental health assessment before buying guns then”
Cultist: “If you try and make me prove I’m not a dangerous extremist I’ll kill you”.
I don’t disagree, but y’all don’t own nearly as many guns as Americans. I think you already highlighted why - in most civilized countries you have actually do some work to get a gun and have more legal responsibility than just “oops little Timmy got my gun again, that’s not your pacifier big guy I don’t know why he likes this thing so much let’s put that back over here on the nightstand.”
Easy access to arms WITHOUT rigour, training and monitoring leads to savage atrocities. Some clowns will highlight European countries with a similar gun ownership rate, but then fail to understand why we don’t have those same atrocities.
I can save a pro-gun cultist the effort and just fill in this comment chain in advance:
Cultist: “Shall not be infringed”
Sane people: “Well regulated”
Cultist: "Well regulated doesn’t mean subjected to regulations like background checks and not hitting your wife, it means well-functioning, like a watch
Sane people: “It’s not that either. Your militia has no training or physical fitness standards, may never had to demonstrate safe and competent handling of their weapon and has an open contempt for the chain of command”
Cultist: “No but its a mental health problem”
Sane people: “Okay, sounds like gun owners should be have to undergo a mandatory mental health assessment before buying guns then”
Cultist: “If you try and make me prove I’m not a dangerous extremist I’ll kill you”.
Training, or perhaps not living in a hopeless shithole?
I don’t disagree, but y’all don’t own nearly as many guns as Americans. I think you already highlighted why - in most civilized countries you have actually do some work to get a gun and have more legal responsibility than just “oops little Timmy got my gun again, that’s not your pacifier big guy I don’t know why he likes this thing so much let’s put that back over here on the nightstand.”