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W4ffle3 t1_j75nfdh wrote

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Me thinks if guns were rare, hard to obtain, and expensive, they wouldn't have been able to possess guns in the first place.

Why don't gun nuts understand how supply and demand works?

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SohndesRheins t1_j75np2y wrote

That strategy hasn't worked for drugs and it didn't work for alcohol during Prohibition.

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W4ffle3 t1_j75z196 wrote

I know this is hard for you to understand, but manufacturing a gun requires a lot more skill money and capital then fermenting plant matter.

Also, you realize the world doesn't just consist of America, right? I can easily look at other countries and see their gun laws work.

To sum, your historical example is bad and real world evidence shows gun prohibition works.

Why are all of the arguments from gun nuts so bad? Your analogies are bad and the only history you know is the United States and some bad history about WWII.

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SohndesRheins t1_j75zkwt wrote

Maybe this is hard for you to understand, but you can 3D print firearm receivers on your kitchen counter with a $300 printer and a few dollars worth of material. This isn't the 1800s anymore when making a gun yourself meant you had to be named John Moses Browning and have a full machine shop just to make single shot and lever action rifles. Hell a German guy came up with a semi-automatic carbine design that doesn't require any parts you can't get from Home Depot. I would say it's way easier to make your own gun than to make your own cocaine and heroin, but no amount of legislation has made cocaine and heroin go away.

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W4ffle3 t1_j78bjrl wrote

This might be hard for you to understand, but 3D printers and supplies are expensive and take technical expertise to set up. Also 3D guns fucking suck.

Do you gun nuts ever think through your arguments? Or do you just uncritically parrot what you read in your discords?

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Witchgrass t1_j76ehaa wrote

I think you would have a lot more luck convincing others of your opinion if you didn’t invalidate the opinion of anyone who disagrees with you by calling them gun nuts

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hydrophonix t1_j76x0ij wrote

Anti-gun-nuts aren't very smart sometimes.

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Witchgrass t1_j77rhpm wrote

As if the only options are all or nothing. There are gun owners (like myself) who aren’t “gun nuts”, who want sensible gun reform. I’m an antifascist who is a proud member of the Socialist Rifle Association. Sometimes I really resent people acting like progressive gun owners aren’t a thing.

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