Do you believe that the people should be able to have guns to protect themselves, or should the police have the sole authority to own and posess guns to protect the people? (sh.itjust.works)

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(As a general concept of how a society should run, not intended as a US-specific question.)

I sometimes see people on the internet saying that giving people easy access to guns is too risky and there should be stricter gun control, while simultaneously wanting to abolish the police? I'm just confused on what people really want?

You cant both abolish the police and then also disarm the citizens, gotta pick one. So which is it, internet? Self-policing with guns? Or reform the police?

[Please state what country you're in]

::: spoiler

(Also its funny how the far-right of the US is both pro-gun and pro-police, I'm confused by that as well) :::

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Vietnam/Iraq/Afghanistan

Lmao, you think they were fighting back with 9mm pistols that they carried to Walmart to feel tough?

Bruh those armies fought back with conventional military guns and mixtures of conventional military explosives and IEDs.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

the largest causes of death in the U.S. armed forces were small arms fire (31.8%),

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties

Afghanistan is the same thing....small arms and IEDs. If you don't know what an IED is and suggest that civilians cannot build them, then you're arguing in bad faith.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Small arms doesn't mean pistols, it means weaponry that doesn't have to be mounted to something else.

It includes automatic and semi-automatic military rifles (like M16s and AKs) and light machine guns (like SAWs and RPDs).

Again, those wars were fought primarily with military weaponry, not handguns.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/small%20arm

a handheld firearm (such as a handgun or shoulder arm)

Civilian rifles are semi-auto...

Around 20million AR pattern rifles are in civ hands in the usa.

Edit: downvoting us doesn't make you correct. This isn't reddit. Votes don't matter here

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