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0 points151552y ago0 comments

And now you have no ability to take those "rights" back using violence if you needed to.

You do not have the right to own a firearm in Australia regardless of whatever mental gymnastics you want to perform.

- The fact that a forcible confiscation (governments cannot "buy back" something they never owned) campaign could happen at all means you do not have this right. "Give us these items or go to prison or die when we come to take them" - some right you have there!

- If you cannot own remotely the same articles that your police do, you do not have a right to bear arms. You have a privilege to own a limited set of items under a limited set of circumstances - all of which would be useless for mounting violent resistance.

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dkjaudyeqooe2y ago

> And now you have no ability to take those "rights" back using violence if you needed to.

This is repeated a lot and shows that at bottom, gun ownership ideologues are violent thugs, they all promote using violence to impose their political views dressed up as a fight for "rights".

Ultimately it proves that restrictive gun laws are absolutely correct.

15155OP2y ago

Mental gymnastics on point once again.

The entire purpose of the Second Amendment - at least in the United States - is to enable violent resistance against tyranny. Not hunting, not culling predators, not sport, not home defense.

> Ultimately it proves that restrictive gun laws are absolutely correct.

"We need to restrict something that prevents further restriction."

You need violence, firearms, and "violent thugs" to go around disarm people who possess them - this in Australia is the threat of prison time.

Pot, meet kettle?

dkjaudyeqooe2y ago

> The entire purpose of the Second Amendment

This is plain bullshit, the historical context doesn't support your wishful thinking.

You can justify violence any way you like, but at the end of the day you're promoting violence and killing people based solely on your political views.

You're repugnant.

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0 points151552y ago0 comments

And now you have no ability to take those "rights" back using violence if you needed to.

You do not have the right to own a firearm in Australia regardless of whatever mental gymnastics you want to perform.

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dkjaudyeqooe2y ago

> And now you have no ability to take those "rights" back using violence if you needed to.

This is repeated a lot and shows that at bottom, gun ownership ideologues are violent thugs, they all promote using violence to impose their political views dressed up as a fight for "rights".

Ultimately it proves that restrictive gun laws are absolutely correct.

15155OP2y ago

Mental gymnastics on point once again.

The entire purpose of the Second Amendment - at least in the United States - is to enable violent resistance against tyranny. Not hunting, not culling predators, not sport, not home defense.

> Ultimately it proves that restrictive gun laws are absolutely correct.

"We need to restrict something that prevents further restriction."

You need violence, firearms, and "violent thugs" to go around disarm people who possess them - this in Australia is the threat of prison time.

Pot, meet kettle?

dkjaudyeqooe2y ago

> The entire purpose of the Second Amendment

This is plain bullshit, the historical context doesn't support your wishful thinking.

You can justify violence any way you like, but at the end of the day you're promoting violence and killing people based solely on your political views.

You're repugnant.

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