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Mary Morrissey apologizes after being filmed dumping liquid into backpack of Democratic legislator Jim Carroll

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And yet another one with a dumb hypothetical. This is just a different version of the "hero with a gun"tripe that damn near never happens. Rape doesn't work like that, it's not like a big burly guy comes at a girl shouting "Imma rape you!" and the girl goes "oh well then let me get my gun out of my purse!". Watch less TV.

Rape happens between spouses, it happens between people that know eachother, it happens when you don't have your purse gun by your side.

You know what does happens? Guns being used every day hundreds of times.to murder innocent men, women, and children. They're used at school shooting, which are now so normal.in US society that you teach children what to do if there is an "active shooter", because of course, this being the US, it has to sound cool. Why at the very least do you call it what it is? A psycho who got where he is due to lack of metal healthcare (and the social care to give it to him) has a gun (because we give guns to psychos, rights man!) and will murder the fuck out of you innocent little children, now hide!

Why is this seen as normal, and why do the kinds like you always fucking excuse it AND NEVER AMSWER THE REALLY TOUGH QUESTIONS ON HOWNTO ACTUALLY FIX IT?

And your rights? Fuck your rights, how about that? Those dumb "much rights!" slogans say it all. You are dumb to think that you have more rights than any other country, BECAUSE YOU DON'T. You have less civil rights in america than in Europe. Ooohhh, you are allowed to carry a gun at breakfast, awesome dude! THAT IS NOT A RIGHT, THAT IS INSANITY. In Europe, Canada, fuck even Mexico you're not allowed to carry guns like crazy because NOBODY WANTS IT. Do you know why? Because we don't want to be like the US where we have to be afraid everywhere. Do you know what rights we have in Europe though? The right to free healthcare if we get hurt. The right to a fair trial independent on our skin color. The right not to be locked up for minor bullshit like smoking a joint. The right to not having tondear the police murdering you with impunity. The right to make a normal living without being forced into poverty by large companies. You got none of that.

Shootings barely ever happen in other countries. And I don't mean first world, well developed countries. I mean pretty much any other country. Hell, Mexico is still in a drug war and I'm still safer here from gun fire than I'd be in the US. Doesn't that tell you anything? Is your mind so brainwashed by fox news that you can't think for yourself any more?

Fuck gun rights, you don't need them, guns are hurting you and everyone and you've been brainwashed into thinking that is a great thing.

Answer me this: do you understand that there are other countries than the US? I've had people from the US not even getting that concept, so just asking to be sure... With that in mind, do you understand that this gun shit DOES NOT HAPPEN ANYWHERE BUT INSIDE THE US.? Now use your brain for a second here... Why would that be? Why is it safer to live in other countries, even a country like mexico, in the middle of a drug war, than it is to live in the US?

Please answer that simple question

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I was raped and if I had a gun with me in a purse or bag I wouldn't have been raped. I did own a gun at home for protection but didn't keep it with me because of concealed carry laws, which is why I got raped. So yeah, rape does work like that, unfortunately. I'm not against free health care and wish everyone had universal health care.

Part of my calculation when being held down and deciding whether or not to fight back was whether I would get killed if I really fought back intensely. I tried pushing him off but he weighted a lot. I had initially tried to reason with him, but reasoning your way out of being raped apparently doesn't work. The easiest way to fight back in the situation I was in would have been to have pressed my thumbs into his eyeballs and I thought if I did that, I might be able to get away, but I also might end up strangled to death. So I didn't do that.

With something like mace or a taser, if I had that, it would have helped, but mace is a bit hard to aim in the dark. With both a taser and mace, yes, they may have worked, but they may not have. I really think if I had merely injured him, he would have killed me after.

It would have been much better had there been a gun with me.

Guns give ordinary people the autonomy to fight back against extreme brutality. It's unfortunate the issue has become polarized. All people should be able to own guns, all people should have universal health care, and all people should have the right to peacefully die if they want. Many of the "crazed" people in the US likely would have chosen a peaceful state-approved suicide or free emotional health service or both when their conditions deteriorated if the laws were different, and linking seeking care to forever having restricted rights (such as the ability to fly a plane or own a gun) is why so many men don't seek mental health support. Idiot liberals think if they buy more ads publicizing the importance of "mental health awareness" that men will suddenly go get help despite the restricted rights that always come with any diagnosis, which is always needed for insurance purposes. Countries that don't have an armed citizen are opening themselves up to brutal extreme tyranny, including dictators and oligopoly rule using the latest tech and AI, and only the stupid and naive don't see the risk or realize that in some countries it may already be here. The solution is more guns. For everyone.