Loosely inspired by how much people seemed to enjoy a similar question I asked on Games about unappreciated titles. But answers don’t have to be media related (they still can be though).

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    1 year ago

    In 2021, there were a total of 48,830 firearm deaths.

    so with 400m firearms, 330m potential users, their interactions with firearms resulted in 40,000 dead people - this isn’t an accounting of all the gun violence, just the deaths.

    sir. 40,000 dead people. Double the death count of the battle of Antietam on both sides. It’s tenfold the deaths on d-day.

    And we’re doing it every fucking year. Gun violence has eclipsed car accidents as the number one killer of children.

    I’m trying to interpret what you’re asserting but the I feel strongly the premise is ignored in these discussions and it’s more of the same - we respect firearms for different reasons. I respect them as dangerous weapons our society is overly fascinated with and it’s bothering me that more people don’t share that respect.

    Incredibly, no one discusses the real threat to firearms ownership, and that’s the inevitable backlash that will result in ‘more firearms is the answer to firearms violence’ - this childish idea that no one would ever take your toys, no matter how bad the carnage gets.

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      Kinda feels like we were both on Point A and now we’re at Point C but neither of us knows what happened to Point B. I wasn’t trying to argue with you if that was an impression I gave off. I’d be more interested in your stance on DI vs Piston or your favorite operating systems.

      I think roller delayed blowback is among the most graceful solutions.

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        I’d be more interested in your stance on DI vs Piston

        was a 90s soldier so only messed with DI rifles and crew served stuff. I wouldn’t mind owning a piston driven rifle like a g3, I like those 70s and 80s hk setups.

        or your favorite operating systems.

        irix

        os2/warp

        solaris 5.5

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        I think you’re a firearms simp who just wants to firearms simp and not be called on it. so go buy another assault rifle and tell yourself it’s freedumb.

        I’d be more interested in your stance on dead kids vs. shit interpretations of a 232 year old constitutional amendment that’s been reinterpreted by fuckwits.