• Mango@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Self defense and particularly defense against unchecked government is the whole primary point for me. I don’t care to go about shooting animals. Gun sports is cool I guess.

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      10 months ago

      Yes, I understood that point. It’s just not widely shared outside of the US. I personally wouldn’t mind having something for self defense, but I’m in a minority and it comes from living a rough life when younger. Luckily the risk of running into an armed intruder here is just about zero anyway. It’s just another world, really.

      …and I think you’re smart enough to know there’s no outshooting any government, no matter the country.

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        10 months ago

        Just about zero? Try several times in my own personal life. I’ll die in a shootout long before I ever let them take me again. Death > torture

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          10 months ago

          If it wasn’t apparent already, we don’t live on the same continent. We live in completely different worlds.

          The biggest threat here is getting mugged by some youngster with a knife that’ll get caught within 15 minutes.

          If I lived over there I’d be carrying too. Here? Here we leave our babies to sleep outside safely.