I’m new to Lemmy, and trying to get a gauge on the community. Unfortunately, it seems that it’s just gonna be another heavily left wing website, but hoping that the smaller pockets of users will be reasonable.
What are the issues that the Conservative community here cars about most?
I’m not the biggest gun guy myself, all I have is my dads old .22, but gun rights I definitely would like our future president to respect.
I’m for some of the more basic restrictions - but what is being pushed by the left (‘assault’ weapon bans, semi automatic bans) is atrocious and unconstitutional. It seems obvious to me that to work to ban something, you should at least try to understand it. But the left seems obsessed with trying to ban guns with absolutely 0 knowledge about them
I own 16 guns. I support banning AR-15 style assault weapons, gun owner insurance (like car insurance), and I am donating time and money to get it done. I work every day with Europeans. Their kids don’t have “active shooter” drills. My daughter is scared to death of going to school, and I don’t blame her. This has got to stop.
What do you mean by this?
Semi autos?
Scary looking rifles?
Long barrels?
We literally had gun clubs at school without these issues. It’s clearly not a gun problem, it’s that our young adults and kids aren’t mentally healthy or getting the help they need. The school system is failing, and our society encouraging single parent households is causing a lot of these problems, too.
And your daughter is a child and looks at things childishly. The only reason she should be scared is if it’s over reported and over exposed to people. The chances of being in a school shooting is extremely extremely extremely low. If she was more reasonable and had an adult to help her understand life, she’d be more scared of dying in the car ride to school.
Without knowing fully your parenting style, I’d blame you. Somewhere, your child has become overly anxious of an extremely unlikely scenario. Should we ban any metal post above 10 ft tall because some kids are scared of being struck by lightning?
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Do I have to be the biggest gun guy to respect the constitution?
I’m not the biggest protestor, but I’m for everyones right to protest, see how that works?
Your daughter, against all logic and reason, is ‘scared to death’ of going into one of the safest places in the world. You’re the adult, you should at least see logic and reason, but instead you seem to foster an environment against that, and once you’re challenged you don’t have an argument back.
If you don’t want to respond to a comment, why reply?
Firearm deaths are now the number one cause of death for children in the U.S., and this problem is unique to the U.S.
It’s well within reason to be scared of it.
Because the statistics you’re using counts 18 and 19 year olds as children despite other death statistics properly including excluding 18 and 19 year olds in children deaths.
Once again, it’s not. Is it within reason to be scared to death to take a car ride to school? The chances of dying in a car crash is much much much much much more likely than dying in a school shooting.
I think the reason your child is scared ‘to death’ of dying in a school shooting is because of your fears. Please don’t pass your unreasonable fears to your children.
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Not anymore. Firearm deaths have surpassed motor vehicle deaths.
You misread my statement. Are you claiming that school shootings cause more deaths than vehicle accidents?
Source please.
Ah, I see, In your head banning military style weapons of mass death is equated to banning everything. Got it. It’s difficult to have discussions with somebody so simple minded.
idiot. My daughter’s school had four lockdowns due to active shooter alerts in the last school year alone.
You’re lost cause, I’ll stop responding now…
The amount of hyperbole in your comment is appalling.
I’m asking.
You aren’t answering.
BS you own 16 guns. AR15s are the most common rifles around.
And also you aren’t required to have car insurance to own a car.
Well, 15 if you discount the 50 cal TC Omega black powder. I’ve an 8mm Mauser kar98 complete with WWII Nazi symbols, My bird guns include a Browning 16ga o/u and a Remington 1100 3.5", there’s a 22 Marlin in there, a 44 mag Pardner single shot for sabots, etc etc etc.
Just because I own and use a good number of firearms, that doesn’t mean I’m brainwashed by the corrupt, sleazy NRA.
I can’t tell if you’re a bad person, or just an idiot. The AR is no more deadly than any of those, aside from the 22lr.