Quote (fender @ Jun 23 2022 06:10pm)
wrong. the primary purpose of a gun is to kill. that's what they were invented and optimised for.
also, that lazy talking point has been comprehensively debunked. in reality, most gun nuts are the biggest shills for government tyranny like mass incarceration, police brutality, voter disenfranchisement, mass surveillance... and even if you opposed any of this, guns did literally nothing to prevent it. there is absolutely NO causal link between gun ownership and freedom.
https://i.imgur.com/AL2mKEp.pngThe vast majority of guns will never be used to kill.
Apparently you've never heard of the concept of deterrence. Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction. And yet, they will most likely never be used. Their *existence* serves as deterrence between nations.
It's the same concept with guns. You remove the deterrence, and the government now has nothing to fear if they go full-blown fascist dictatorship.
Sadly you are the type of person who would not only cheer at mass civilian disarmament, but you'd welcome a dictatorship with open arms so long as it was ran by leftists and they told you it was for your protection.