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ProfessorPlum

(11,461 posts)
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 11:47 AM Jun 2022

allowing morons, children, hate-filled goons, and the propagandized to carry weapons of war

actually decreases everyone's freedoms. It means we all have to worry about being in public. When will the next NRA-fest be? Which innocents will be slaughtered? How can we make schools prisons - take away their freedom to be in an open, light-filled, liberating environment and replace them with windowless, booby-trapped, cement cells?

Why can't we win this argument (or at least make the argument) on the basis of maximizing everyone else's freedom not to be gunned down - or worry about ourselves or our loved ones or innocent friends that we haven't met yet - being gunned down?

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allowing morons, children, hate-filled goons, and the propagandized to carry weapons of war (Original Post) ProfessorPlum Jun 2022 OP
It's "individual" freedom that counts. Turbineguy Jun 2022 #1
The the GOP and gun people have all the freedoms. Irish_Dem Jun 2022 #2

Turbineguy

(40,213 posts)
1. It's "individual" freedom that counts.
Sat Jun 11, 2022, 11:53 AM
Jun 2022

"Everyone" is collective, it's communism. Unless you are enslaved by fear, you are a communist.

The logic of MAGA is not to be questioned!

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