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Not if you have anything to do about it, surely.

Those atrocities occurred after the groups to be victimized were disarmed: Jews, Russian people, Chinese people. The American War of Independence was started when the British army attempted to confiscate weapons.

There really is no legitimate reason for a government to disarm its citizens.

I would buy that if gun lovers voted like they cared about schools, health care, and affordability. But you don't. You pay lip service and post screeds on the Internet and vote with people who will make things objectively worse on all those fronts.

How do you know what gun owners vote for? You're making an ignorant assumption about what gun owners vote for. Gun owners exist in every single demographic. There are Black gun owners, Indigenous gun owners, Jewish gun owners, Latinx gun owners, LGBT gun owners.

We own guns because we desire the ability to protect ourselves and we understand the history of gun control in this country: To disarm and victimize undesired groups, in particular, Blacks.

I see the push for gun control to be hand-in-hand with the movement to criminalize self-defense. This is reprehensible.

I don't see firearms as the cause of those deaths. No data shows more than a correlation between firearms and firearm-related deaths. I believe there are other issues that are causative.

Additionally, I don't see firearm-related deaths as worse than deaths in other categories. Are we more concerned with firearm-related deaths than with deaths with known causes, such as unaffordable healthcare, heart disease, or unsafe driving? Firearm-related deaths accounted for 1.5% of all deaths in the United States in 2022. Rifles, including AR-15-patterned rifles and other types, accounted for 0.02% of deaths that year, while handguns accounted for 0.25%. Meanwhile, 21.88% of deaths were caused by heart disease, 19.53% were caused by cancer, and 5.47% were caused by strokes (these percentages are approximate).

Instead of addressing the 1/50th of one percent of deaths by illegally infringing upon an enumerated right, we should address real causes of mortality by increasing access to affordable healthcare, solving the affordability crisis, and improving access to mental healthcare. Those truly concerned for the safety of children in schools should do away with "gun-free zones" (I call them "Shoot here without fear" zones) and insist upon modern physical security standards and better funding for schools. We have awful schools! Millions of taxpayer dollars are wasted attempting to legally defend indefensible Second Amendment infringements that could otherwise be spent improving our schools and the education of our children.

If you really think that guns are a problem and you really want to address the problem, why the AR-15 "assault weapon" fetish? Why do you gun grabbers focus on everything except for facts?

Data sources in this comment:

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/
2. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7218a3.htm

Restudy the history of the Second Amendment. You'll find that it was insisted upon because the signatories were uncomfortable with the potential for tyranny by the federal government.

The funny thing is the vast majority of gun-related deaths involve handguns rather than AR-15-pattern rifles. And prairie dogs? That precisely the kind of creature the .223 Remington or NATO 5.56 intermediate cartridge the AR-15 traditionally fires was designed for. It could be effective against a Columbian drug cartel, but if I were facing down a population of homicidal moose, I would want a much larger caliber, such as the .30-06 most commonly used for battle rifles prior to the introduction of the less powerful NATO 5.56.

There are no situations where an AR-15 is going to help the average person any more than a regular handgun can.

You sound like a passionate proponent of gun control. I would advise you to educate yourself on the subject of firearms so as to be more effective in your activism, rather than merely spreading misinformation and FUD.

I mean... the evidence is there. The Holocaust. Maoist China. Stalin's Soviet Union. British tyranny over the 13 American colonies.

There is a reason the Second Amendment exists. It provides a physical wedge between the rights of the people and the government, which always seeks to restrict those rights. The consequence of disarmament? See the list in my previous paragraph.

Americans also feel pessimistic that anything will change. Indeed, 68 percent don’t believe the federal government will do anything to reduce gun violence within the next year, per the Quinnipiac poll.

A decent fraction of that percentage are not pessimistic, but rather optimistic that the government will not do anything to infringe upon the right to keep and bear arms. I count myself among that number.

The only acceptable way to gatekeep dad jokes.

California DOT is funded through taxes and I still have to pay an annual subscription to drive my car on public roadways.

That final line 💀

I think it's hilarious that NASA adopted the streaming industry's terminology for subscription services for its free streaming service. I thought at first that you'd have to pay for NASA+, but it is in fact free.

The Mormons tried to take over the whole state through violent rebellion, therefore there was an Execute-On-Sight order put on all Mormons in Missouri.

Actually, the Latter-day Saints legally bought property throughout Missouri and even founded a few towns, but their neighbors didn't like their political and economic influence and formed mobs to kill them and steal their land. The Latter-day Saints were unable to get support from the corrupt Missouri government, and states rights being a major issue of the time, were also unable to get support from the federal government. They defended themselves with deadly force, but were unable to prevail against the mobs, which were explicitly supported by the state. The "Extermination Order" was eventually signed by Governor Lilburn Boggs, and the Latter-day Saints abandoned their legal property in Missouri.

So no, there was no violent rebellion of "Mormons" in Missouri. There was a state-sponsored genocide, which eventually forced an entire faith to flee the United States in search of religious freedom. One of the darkest moments in our country's history.

too much money

That's the rub. There's a LOT of money on the table.

It may be too late to turn this ship around, but there are a few things that, at least for me, would make YouTube ads less of a problem:

1. Vet all the ads. Do not allow links to malware sites, scams, or low-quality merchandise and services to be on the platform.
2. Make the ads less annoying. Don't stick them into weird spots on a video.
3. Stop tracking me and trying to display targeted ads. I value my privacy, and like OP, I am never going to click an ad.

So... Are you unironically trying to tell me that every Palestinian is a Hamas terrorist? That's a pretty extreme position to take, my guy, and it's also the only way to reconcile what was quoted in the article with your editorialized headline.

When you buy your software on archive.org

I've made no definitive statements, only conjecture. I'm really not sure what argument you're trying to make.

I'm not shitting on anyone, I'm simply stating facts. It is a possible explanation for the idiotic moves the Iranian military has been making as of late: Lack of experience.

More than half of Iran is too young to remember Operation Praying Mantis, or wasn't even born yet. They may underestimate America's willingness to respond forcefully to acts of aggression against us.

Tell yourself whatever helps you sleep at night, bud. Hopefully the fact that you support terrorism is overcome by the propaganda you dogmatically cling to.