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Wait, what happened with the first one?

Worse politics, plus her favorability would drop as soon as she became an active candidate.

There are plenty of people refusing to join the idf, its not some mystical heroicism. Regardless of how people joined it, a military occupying land and committing a genocide is a legitimate target under international law.

This is true, but for how often Americans boil water, it's just not worth having a dedicated device for most of them

They don't, kettles just aren't that much more efficient at 120v. Like a kettle will still be faster, just not by enough for people to care.

They run fine, but basically the same as a microwave, British kettles are just magic

Our electricity is 120v here in the US, so kettles take forever

Oh I'm by no means a conservative, I'm just trying to be descriptive. Conservatives are largely fully on board with ICE rounding up random brown people. They don't value the 2nd amendment as a means of resisting government tyrany because they aren't doing it, they're on the side of the tyrants.

This is precisely the type of tyrany the 2nd amendment should prevent, but because guns have largely become a conservative issue, we're stuck in the worst possible position of having both a lot of guns and tyranny.

Revolutionary war, 1812, bleeding Kansas, the civil war, the battle of Blair mountain, the black panthers

Guns increase the rates of suicide, they increase the rates of domestic violence murder, and they make everyone less safe around police by giving police an excuse to use deadly force.

Yes, and cars kill more people both proportionately and in raw numbers. I'm also anti-cop. Freedoms come with downsides, just pointing out that fact isn't an argument against the freedom. You have to argue those downsides overpower the freedom.

Guns also are not manufactured clandestinely en masse, anywhere, because it takes a lot of precise industrial machining to do at scale. They are not like sex or weed that are impossible to ban, when you stop manufacturing them for nonsense reasons, they stop circulating and criminals stop being able to get their hands on them.

I can fully 3d print a gun. I can get a cheap CNC machine and manufacture metal parts. I can reload ammo in my garage, if I'm going to shoot shot, basically all I need is a metal ball and a pipe. I don't even need advanced technology to do this, poachers in areas with gun restrictions have a massive culture of hand made firearms. Shinzo Abe was assassinated with a home-made gun. You can drastically reduce their prevalence, but they're impossible to fully get rid of.

I do not understand why Americans think they are such unfathomably unique snowflakes that none of the evidence or lessons learned from every other developed country could apply to them.

We aren't. Guns drastically increase the death rates of violence and attempted suicide. Banning guns will reduce these. It does this at the cost of the state obtaining a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. I believe we can drastically reduce the rate of fun violence through testing requirements before someone can buy a gun, like what we do with cars.

Every right has consequences, we have to find a balance, not completely remove the right. I will not support disarming minorities and the working class when the state has demonstrated intent to do them harm.

Cars kill more people in both raw numbers and by proportion

Do you have any idea how much blood fascism will shed?

Yes, arming the public will get people killed, do you think death camps are a preferable alternative?

They have the guns and the government because liberals disarmed themselves.

The government still needs people to enforce their laws, you can't use fighter jets, bioweapons, and nuclear weapons against your own citizenry without losing legitimacy and leading to a civil war where foreign governments would arm all sides. Take a look at Syria, they successfully overthrew the Assad regime with the support of other nations.

We currently have armed unidentified state thugs snatching random minorities off the streets, that's the sort of government abuse that could be stopped if liberals were armed. The state can only go so far in using force against their own citizens before it fractures and we look like the Syrian civil war.

Explaining that they aren't silent and just make guns less likely to damage hearing is the most appropriate answer to someone asking why they're needed.

Its also reasonable to assume someone asking why they're needed assumes they're used similarly to how they're presented in pop culture

Yes

Watch the video, he never raised his rifle at the crowd

Too bad they shut down the prince of persia team :(

Yep

Armed resistance, or any kind of violent resistance whatsoever, should be the absolute last resort.

I don't think anyone here is arguing against this, we're just saying it's time to be prepared for if that time comes because we won't be given advanced notice.

We have a government controlled by people dedicated to consolidating their power and ensuring they won't be opposed. Unidentifiable armed thugs are grabbing people off the street and shipping them to torture camps.

I sincerely hope this can be resolved peacefully, but the reality of the situation is we have to be prepared for if it can't be.

Obviously don't fire the first shot; but if they do, it needs to be met with a shot back.