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A user wrote that someone who brandishes in public deserves to be shot.

You asked if that applies to people who open carry at McDonalds.

I replied to note that brandishing and open carry are different things.

You replied "Watch the video." As there are several videos floating around relating to this event, and as the video in OP's article does not seem at all relevant or the one that you reference, and you don't offer any reason why some video should be watched, I found this comment to be dismissive, vague, and unhelpful.

So I replied with reference to the similarly vague and unhelpful meme of "read theory" in hopes of cuing you in to the lack of imformation without wasting too much energy on your behalf.

Joke went completely over your head. You began making a character argument on behalf Gamboa as you know the guy. Completely unrelated to where the thread began.

And then when I try to reel you back in to the topic of brandishing vs open carry, you tell me I'm shit at interpreting context.

Come on, buddy. Really? Really??? I'm not someone you should be angry at or fighting with. You seemed to have been confusing brandishing for open carry and I just wanted to make sure you were aware that those are completely different things.

What does this have to do with your fantasy of shooting people in a McDonalds?

"Read theory"

Adding another obligatory "brandishing and open carry are legally distinct acts" to the thread.

I think you touched on why. Ethnic identity is somewhat arbitrary, and tied up with national / cultural identity. In the US, despite our xenophobic phases most of us culturally identify as a nation of immigrants. So in terms of ethnicity, we're more concerned with where our lineage existed before arriving in the United States, rather than how long it's existed in the United States. There's a bit of a hierarchy of "who's family has existed in the US the longest", but all of those claims are still anchored by which nations their ancestors came from.

There's also the fact that American genetics haven't been sedentary long enough - And probably never will be - For us to mix evenly enough to develop a unified physical appearance. Ethnicity is of course not just skin deep, but ethnic identity and identification often uses it as shorthand, and there is as far as I know no stereotypical American ethnic appearance.

It's propaganda.

Well then call me the outlier, cause I'm a childless man who has been happily working remote since before covid. I'd rather be jobless than go back to office work. I have a small group of non-work friends that I enjoy spending time with, and back when I did office work the majority of my friends were not work friends.

Americans keep their ethnic identity distinct from their national identity. If an American national tells you they're Irish, they're invariably referring to the former.

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Not being able to participate anywhere on Lemmy merely because my home instance was down didn't feed very federated :(

Is there anything I can do to guard against that issue in the future? Is there a way to mirror an account between two instances or something?

Anyway, big props to the slrpnk admins for getting the instance back online quicker than expected. Your hard work is definitely not unappreciated or unnoticed.

Came to the comments for The Arrival mention, TY.

Not to incidentally glorify a bunch of aristocratic slave owners, but I think that's exactly the sort of shortcut that the founders of the USA didn't want us to be making, and I do agree with them on that matter. I'd rather have long, hard, good-faith conversations over how to safely and responsibly have as much freedom and individual autonomy as possible without infringing on the same for others, than give up access to specific objects and actions piecemeal in an ostensible attempt to curtail our lowest common denominators.

In terms of outcomes, there are about 400 million guns in the US and about 283 million cars. Yet gun deaths and car deaths have kept pace with one another for about a decade with roughly 45K annually for each, with guns recently edging out cars during covid. Statistically speaking, a gun kills at a rate of 11.25⁻⁵ Americans per year, while a car kills at a rate of 15.79⁻⁵ Americans per year.

However, I hope you'll agree with me that we shouldn't ban cars simply because they are capable of violence.

Interesting, I'm autistic and what frustrates me here is that the question specifically asks you to posit "How is it possible" and the teacher insists that you're supposed to just say that it's not. Makes me want to just Calvinball the whole damn exam. 5 + 7, what is the answer? Purple. Obviously.

How is that possible?

"False"

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The question literally says "Marty ate more pizza". It's a foundational fact that you're given as a part of the problem. If refuting the basic facts of the question are on the table and the answer was the say "Actually, no he didn't" then you might as well say something like "No, he actually at 1/6 of his pizza" and claim all the numbers given are dishonest.

Well go on, show me the violent crime stats by country so that we can compare to semiauto long gun regs. It would also be nice if we could see before and after stats but I know that's a tall ask and I'm not trying to be a sealion. Let's just see violent crime stats, maybe just homicides per 1 million or similar. It sounds like you have access to this data.

Don't show me only the mass shooting stats. We're not trying to reduce mass shootings, we're trying to reduce violence. We're not trying to avoid having to see guns, we're trying to avoid having to see bloodshed. I know, I know. You want to point out that mass shootings are a vector of violence that can be remedied by removing guns. This is true, taking away rights does mute a lot of issues related to irresponsible management of those rights. But you've been brushing off my suggestions that there are more just and fair ways to address that vector for this entire conversation. So let's table that specific response of yours for now, and let's just see the violence stats before moving on.

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Nice try, FBI