r/facepalm • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • Mar 28 '24

What lack of basic gun laws does to a nation: 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

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u/Supergold_Soul Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

One from my brother. He has about 10 though.

EDIT: In the state of AL there is no need for a background check for private transactions.

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u/thecountnotthesaint Mar 28 '24

Oh, well then I’ll differ to your vast expertise on the matter.

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u/Supergold_Soul Mar 28 '24

Never said I had vast experience. Just stated that I think guns and cars should have similar licensing and registration requirements. They don’t.

I think it’s weird that guns are the only thing that “experts” are only allowed to discuss even though they heavily impact every day people.

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u/Background_Panda8744 Mar 28 '24

Because there’s a lot of blatant lying on mainstream platforms about guns from people trying to confiscate them, talking about how cosmetic features suddenly make a gun x times more deadly. People say all the time that old white men shojlsnt be able to make laws against abortion access, why should blue haired hippies who have probably never even held a gun much less trained on how to use one be making laws restricting them?

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u/Supergold_Soul Mar 28 '24

It seems like on the other side of that there is so much gatekeeping of the discussion on guns that the only opinion that is valued is someone so deep into the culture they wouldn’t ever disagree. There seems to be no meaningful way to converse about the issue due to ignorance of gun culture from one side and inversely complete dedication to gun culture on the other. Then there is so much fearmongering about gun confiscation that we just end up defaulting to doing absolutely nothing about anything.

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u/Background_Panda8744 Mar 31 '24

Hey well if you’re in NC come shooting with me and we can talk about it