i prefer gun grabbers to bullshit right wing fascism, but i'm not happy about it. gun grabbers are a threat to civil rights. people should be convinced to forgo arms voluntarily, not forced to forgo arms against their will. the outcome is the same - a disarmed society - but the difference is that forcible disarmament doesn't win people deep down. it doesn't truly make them peaceful people. what happens when you take weapons from people who aren't truly peaceful? they use different weapons, or even their bare fists, and society regresses to the values of strong-armed people. put differently, i see gun bans as hypermasculine. taking guns away from people magnifies the influence of upper body strength on human affairs. guns don't care (much) if their wielders are wimpy. but... the democrats' values and platform are so much moral, rational, and liberty-preserving than the republicans' values and platform. i also don't want more trashy conservatives in the supreme court. the republicans are threatening huge swathes of america's liberties. the democrats are only threatening gun rights, and in every other sense comport themselves as if they love america's true value of freedom. when pressed to the question, i am obligated to choose freedom over guns.
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