• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    As a European it always amazes me that Americans think that a gun will solve their problems. Even after the problem doesn’t get solved, however many guns there are. Decade after decade. After decade.

    And yes, usually I think about some redneck white moron “on the shooting range”, but everyone can be that person it seems.

    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      And as an American I just don’t want to be a completely vulnerable sitting duck if shit hits the fan here. Why do you Europeans think every single owner is an obsessed nut?

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      17 hours ago

      What you think about when you picture a range in your head doesn’t excuse othering everybody who isn’t white or delegitimizing their fears.

      You would also do well to remember where white people came from… because it wasn’t America. Sooner or later Europeans are going to have to come to terms with their colonialism.