• seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.socialEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    I half agree with his gun regulation stance. While ideally there would be more caution given to who owns guns that is unfortunately not the world americans have been living in the last 80 years or so. The fascists have guns, lots of them, and I’m not giving mine up while they have them.

    Everything else he said is 100% based.

    • Lilium@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Well, yeah, fascists having guns is a “randomly giving guns to any moron with a pulse” problem.

      • Andreas@feddit.dkEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        When you’re in power, the fascists are the “morons with a pulse” who don’t get guns, but when they’re in power, YOU’RE the moron with a pulse who loses your ability to defend yourself. The point is to remove the ability of the authorities to decide who gets the right to own weapons, because it can easily be turned against you. Besides, morons obtain weapons illegally all the time. Firearms ownership is illegal in my country (except for licensed use like hunting) but we still have problems with gun violence because of weapons trafficking.

    • Hexorg@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah the gun law regulators generally ignore the fact that everyone and their grandma already has guns. And those with guns are not willing to do trade in programs.

      I’d like to see better psych eval and requiring to re-license every so often. That should start steering the country in the right direction. Of course I don’t see this happening any time soon.

      • jiml78@lemmy.mlEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        The US has no chance of passing anything around licensing of firearms in the short term. We can only hope that Gen Z votes all the gun nuts out of office.

    • rakkhun@beehaw.orgEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      I think fascists is going too far… they’re crazy and dumb, that’s it.

      • Venus@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Nah, they’re fascists. Maybe not every republican, but a solid 70% or so of them. And a decent chunk of democrats too.