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Gun Culture

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Gunsgunsguns · 11/02/2026 14:53

Does anyone else actually get angry at America/ Canada pro gun culture?

Honestly I just feel angry. What is actually wrong with these people?!

Can they really not see that the harm this causes to children? The harm this causes to them! The mental gymnastics.

And I kind of ignored it for a while the past few years thinking well Trump is a bit psycho. I can see why maybe they did want to retain arms against a tyrannical government. And then I see what happened with ICE recently and whats going on over there. It looks like flipping handmaids tale - utterly dystopian.

And I see guns arent saving you from that! If anything it’s a good excuse to shoot you.

What are they imagining - that a whole street simultaneously decides to shoot up ICE, or some over Gov organisation, and they think that will result in what?! Thats going to stop them. Of course not. They are just going to end up dead or in prison, or being executed.

In a true tyrannical government; having a gun makes you top of the list for being targeted surely.

Seriously it doesn’t even make sense.

Honestly it angers me… very very deeply!

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HarryMaguireSlabHead · 11/02/2026 14:58

How angry are you? Do you need meds to calm down?

TeenToTwenties · 11/02/2026 14:56

USA and Canada have very different rules.

I'm more sad than angry.

Eightdayz · 11/02/2026 14:54

Yabvu for getting your knickers in a twist for something that doesnt affect you or you can do a single thing about.

Absolute waste of emotional energy