shirleycrabtree.bsky.social
Typical middle-aged remoaner centrist cat. Interested in utility cycling and worrying about climate change. Type 1 diabetic. Likes mid to late 80s pop and early 90s indie music. Bonus points if you can identify the location in the picture.
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If the Arctic wasn’t literally on fire then this sort of nonsense would be funny.
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It has much stricter gun controls and much lower gun violence.
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Mate what are you talking about? It’s not a fundamental human right to own a gun. Most civilised places in the world do not have generalised gun ownership.
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Yeah but everyone having guns means loads of people get shot. We don’t have school shooting here in the UK because people do have guns. Frankly it’s weird to expect the public to be allowed to have weapons.
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What? Most countries in the world have very strict gun laws meaning to all intents and purposes people don’t have guns.
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No, the correct way to run a society is for no one to have guns. Why the hell does anyone need a gun?
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Well it makes everyone else more likely to get shot.
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The problem is everyone has guns. If you think that owning a gun is a right then how do you solve the problem of everyone having guns without impinging that right?
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Previously it’s just been paint, which isn’t really infrastructure at all. The route along the embankment and the protected routes over the bridges are examples of proper routes that actually make people feel safe. @peterwalker99.bsky.social do you have any insight?
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He was probably forced to take the drugs by a gang of asylum seekers.
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You are fighting nazis to save people from speaking German now?
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Mate I am from Europe. Where the actual war you are talking about happened - so what were we sheltered from? We have a reasonable grasp of what went on.
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Mate what exactly is so subtle and nuanced about your position? You are dogmatic in your belief that it’s good for you to carry a gun, despite the data and studies to the contrary. That is a maximalist position.
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I am not the one who needs to carry a gun. You make standard Good Guys With Guns nonsense arguments. Then you start going all manosphere. Seems like you are itching to get that red cap on.
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Well it seems both sides have them. MURICA!!!!
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More likely to die if you start pulling out your gun. It’s just the truth. Spin it however you want - you are unlikely to make the right call in that situation. What is much more likely is to get down on your knees and beg for her life. But again less likely to make you feel all manly and strong.
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Yeah mate. That’s what I said.
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You don’t appear to be able to read. I said your wife is more likely to get shot if you pull your gun.
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In a war situation that’s true I imagine. In an everyday situation most times someone with a gun doesn’t want to shoot people, but wants something else.
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Your wife is much more likely to get shot if you pull your gun out. But you’d feel
more of a man at the funeral I guess. Which seems to be the important thing.
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How can I refute you? Honestly if you shoot as well as you write then I really do fear for the bystanders once you start blasting away.
I have the luxury of not worrying about someone else having a gun as I live in a civilised society. If I were you I’d move to Canada tbh.
Good luck out there.
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Generally in a situation someone is more likely to get shot if the gunman is threatened with a gun. And if someone is pointing a gun at your wife and you don’t know whether they want to shoot her then what are you going to do if you have your gun? Maybe you are Dirty Harry but it’s not likely.
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Mate you’ve said maximalist about seventeen times so far. It makes it look like you have just learned the word today.
You have said owning a gun makes your family safer when all the evidence points to the contrary. Your argument is “I am good at guns” really doesn’t cut through that.
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If you really think having a gun is more likely than I end up you saving someone’s life than accidentally taking someone’s then I can see why your country has such a problem. You are deluding yourself.
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Yeah much more impractical than aiming through a crowd of terrified people to hit a moving target whilst crouched over your screaming children. The good guys with guns argument is about as dumb as it gets.
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And requiring nuance of others when you present the only two options as: a) carry a gun with you for your entire life at all times or; b) let a while room of people die.
It’s like saying you need to devote your life to Krav Maga or you want someone to stab your granny to death on the street.
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Also nuance is not a skill. It’s a noun.
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Mate the points you are making only seem in any way rational to you because you are so indoctrinated. The rest of the world is looking at you agog.