such a funny time for this discourse again ☕

  • Professorozone@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Same here.

    To me it’s a useless item.

    I saw a competition where competitors would stand on a blue square and quickly shoot all the blue targets that popped up, then move to a red square and shoot the red ones. It was timed and looked like a ton of fun. I thought, this would be the only reason I would buy one. But you know, I have a lot of hobbies. That looked real expensive. I would have to hang around gun ranges and gun people. There would be a dangerous weapon in the house. We don’t have kids but visitors do. My wife doesn’t want it. In the end I just didn’t want it.

    I have a lot of friends who are Democrats and a lot of them own guns. I laugh every time Republicans say Dems want to take their guns. I’m like, no, they just want some simple safety rules and the strange thing is 80% of all gun owners used to to. I don’t know if that’s still true but the number came from the NRA a decade or two ago. Yeah, THE NRA. They even used to be in favor of an automatic weapons ban.

    I don’t think more guns is the answer, but I can kind of see the logic for a lefty to want to defend himself…or his country.