• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
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    3 days ago

    Most people in the US do not have guns, either. But the people who do, tend to have a bunch. This is what drives up that ownership rate. They’ve turned it into their personality.

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      3 days ago

      It’s weird how averages work for both countries. It’s not like one average is more indicative than another.

    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      And they ones who do that are typically right wing and see its use as reasonable discourse. There’s a difference from someone owning a gun because they like to target shoot and see it as a tool as opposed to those who see it as a way to express their power openly.