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windinhishair This is the post I've made which you have not responded to:
A few years ago, here in the UK, several Islamic terrorists ran down london bridge and killed quite a few people with knives. They were only stopped when an officer with a gun shot them. If innocent people were allowed to be armed, the second a knife came out, their gun would have been pulled out, no need for casualties. In France there was a similar attack in a church in which several people were decapitated with a knife. Again, armed church, end of story. The media never likes to make much of a fuss about all this because it goes against a lot of the narratives from the left, but over here in Europe the attacks are pretty much daily, deadly and without guns. If we were allowed to be armed and were more cohesive, we wouldn't have issues.
I'm not a republican, neither a democrat. But I am in favour of being allowed to be armed. I do not think any person has the authority to tell another human that they are not allowed to defend themselves, regardless of if they wear a suit or give themselves a title.
I'm glad we agree on the long term solution, but it's the only thing that works. Short term solutions are just quick fixes and then another short term thing is needed, and another, and another, and politicians will take advantage. I don't think it is actually poverty that causes this, as you are not exactly in dire straits if you have enough money spare for an assault rifle and ammo. And I know plenty of people not that well off who are completely sane when in the right environment.
I think it's more the culture. There are countless millions of people who know they are never going to get everything out of the only life they have, whilst a very small number of people get everything. And then these same well off people say "you are privileged because of your gender, or your skin colour. You might be homeless, but you're white. You might be suffering from a crippling illness, but you are a male" it almost seems like there is an intentional attempt to rile people up. And at the same time there is this push to make it impossible for anyone to come to an agreement on anything. The most objective things are somehow now some political issue. "men can actually get pregnant", "being fat is actually healthy", and at the same time the state splits people into identity groups, convinces them that one group is out to get the other and then if anyone says the wrong thing you are charged with a hatecrime. So millions of people get no help, they are being told they are actually privileged and evil because of immutable characteristics, we are being told to group people based on those immutable characteristics. It's getting ridiculous. I feel like my time at school was more adult and coherent when it came to discussing issues. As an adult, especially in politics its as if we've taken all the ways of thinking that the scientific method highlighted as being a fallacy, and decided that all those fallacies are actually the right way of doing things.
It is a major, major cultural issue which actually stems from the individual, and you took a knock at the republicans, so I'm going to make a knock at the democrats, many on their side seem to want to group people into identity groups at the expense of their individual freedoms and merits, and it is the level of the individual that matters. We suffer, we succeed, we love at the individual level. And it is at the individual level where we need to rebuild our communities. Not all this crap about "if we can just chastise this group of people enough, or if we can just ban these weapons!". No. I think there is an intentional dark path being forged with all that, at the expense of the individual. If you haven't stabbed someone you get to keep your knife, if you haven't run someone over you get to keep your car, if you haven't shot someone you get to keep your gun. I can assure you, guns are banned here in the UK, but we still have absolutely horrible people that find other more gruesome ways to harm people. Fix that, and you'll fix almost every issue and you can keep your guns like you have for hundreds of years. This massive wave of shootings happened very recently and it goes hand in hand with all the division from the media and identitarian (which at the moment is all over the democratic party divisive crap.
If you still don't believe me, I've really studied this, both looking at the history of the US, similar movements in Europe and Asia, and also on the individual psychological level, so I'm happy to say more.
