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I don't think being against guns and gun violence is compatible with encouraging armed revolution.





If that's what you need to remove the mental roadblock needed to deal with the actual topic then sure, call me pro-gun. If your constitution gave you the right to bear sharpened spoons, I'd be asking about that, too.

This is the actual topic. You said that it is bad that Americans use the second amendment to justify having guns and good for them to use them in an act of mass political violence to stop tarriffs on filming locations and science budget cuts. The other three positions are coherent: have guns and use them, have guns and don't use them, don't have guns and don't use them. If someone is going to assert that my countrymen should take up arms- putting myself, my family, and my friends at mortal risk- over taxes and budget decisions, they can at least admit that their frame means it's quite good that we kept the guns despite the mass shootings. I'm not going to operate on a hairpin trigger on advice from a self-proclaimed pacifist, you know?



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