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RE: Leftist liberal media and SJW's are losing all connection with sanity...
labels are indeed BS.
The gun issue is a fundamental one - the right to protect yourself, and not relying on another authority to protect you.
You believe in that or you believe in authority.
I don't like authority - I have never encountered it, and felt better from the meeting...
Assuming one's own authority is freedom.
The thing is though that America is a particular case. You don't see what I see from across the pond. That doesn't make my view qualitatively better than yours, but it is different.
We don't own guns over here. I mean, they are around, but they are rare. As a consequence, there is almost no gun crime.
We don't need an authority to protect us, because there is no threat to protect us from. There are police, obviously, but their job is somewhat different over here.
And that's at the heart of the debate - you think you need a gun to protect yourself (perhaps you do), I know that I don't need one to protect myself.
We can't agree, because we live in different worlds.