Elon Musk is a Faggot that thinks you need a "permit" to own guns. [1024x627 - 69KB]

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well i bet this seems logical if you have never been near a gun and live in a gated community with 20 guards 24 /7

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While I’m obviously explicitly opposed to this, the video on the internet of the guy whose nine year old daughter accidentally killed him with a machine gun at a range because she was holding the trigger and lost complete control of her aim does make me understand why people think this way.

Just because people should have the right to have arms doesn’t mean that everyone has the discipline to handle them/teach people properly. The hard part for most people to understand is that those people should be taken out of society anyway

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Yeah ok commie, just make a committee to appoint us our rights to defense, I'm sure that will go well.

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Not even remotely close to what I said.

Being able to understand why someone has an opposing viewpoint is not the same as agreeing with their viewpoint

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Well then I guess he is okay with 300 blackout shooting subsonic ammo.

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Definitely still want a 300bo bolt action with a can

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Would be better off with b&t Vp9 welrod suppressed

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Fucking beat me to it bastard, damnit

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He's not wrong. But we already have the permit (the 2nd amendment) and the majority of us are well vetted (Americans).

Simple as that.

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While I vehemently disagree with him on this issue, I do appreciate that he is (or at least appears to be) a guy who would welcome a debate on the issue. That’s a huge step up from the attitude of “if you disagree with me, then you don’t get to speak.”

People are going to have different opinions, there’s no getting around that fact. And, they are free to have them, even if they are wrong and/or I disagree with them. Having different opinions but being able to speak them openly is what freedom is all about.

So whether or not I agree with him on this issue, which I don’t, the constitutional and healthy approach is a fair and open debate on the issue. He is open to that at face value. From there, his opinion can be proven incorrect fairly easily. But it’s the idea of even having the debate in the first place, and not being silenced, which is most important in this context.

I’m not saying that the 2nd amendment doesn’t matter, either. I’m saying that the first amendment is the guardian of all subsequent ones. If it’s destroyed, then the others will be. If it’s preserved, the others will be. So anyone who is an actual supporter of the first amendment, I can deal with.