Run, you fucking piece of shit. Go go go gogogogogogog!

My niece told her grandmother about her fear of getting murdered at school. Feel that fear, asshole.

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    As much as I’m on the same page as everyone here; America’s gun laws need to change, are you not allowed to be afraid of the very well known thing your hobby does? Like, being afraid of being shot doesn’t make you a hypocrite for liking guns.

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      I don’t think anyone is honestly shaming this person for being afraid.

      They are shaming him for refusing to do anything about a situation that he eventually wound up in himself, and suggesting that if he’s not going to do something legislatively then he damn well better do something in person, else he has failed in his duty to care for his citizenry. Which is like saying the pot is black, honestly, since politicians don’t care about the citizenry.

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        The GOP had a stance of good guys with guns will defend people with said guns. So voting to have the guns present and not having one and running instead of defending the people either shows he was a coward by their stance, or not one of the good guys.

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          The first mistake is assuming the GOP cares about people not related to them, or people who don’t benefit them in any way.

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      Yeah but leaders have to lead and this is what happens when you allow your voters to be terrorized constantly at the expense of your own privilege. He’s lucky he hasn’t been tarred and feathered yet.

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      The issue is that the most common argument against gun control is “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” So now this lawmaker has proven that he doesn’t practice what he preaches. If he truly believed a good guy with a gun was the only thing that could stop the shooter, then why not put his money where his mouth is? Surely he’d be hailed as a paragon for gun rights when he took the shooter down…

      But clearly he’s a hypocrite who doesn’t actually believe what he’s saying; He only says it because the gun lobby gives him tons of money to do so.

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        Gun or no gun, he’s not a good guy and couldn’t have stopped the bad guy…

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      Yeah you can be enamored by nature and its fauna, while still having a healthy fear of being attacked by animals.

      I love trains but being tied to tracks while a train approaches isn’t what I think of as “fun”.

      That said proper, responsible gun ownership like any hobby involves accounting for dangers, and also advocating for measures for people to be able to enjoy their passion safely.

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      Going to the range and being afraid of criminal shooters isn’t hypocritical.

      Being afraid of criminal shooters and fighting against gun control reforms makes you a hypocrite and a bad person.

      And there’s nothing wrong innately with being a hypocrite. But you’re a pretty shit person if your empathy and considerations can only extend as far as things that have threatened you personally.

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      Guna don’t scare me but people using guns recklessly or maliciously do.

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      Being afraid of being shot does make you a hypocrite if you are against gun restrictions and regulations.

      Your world view is getting people killed, you SHOULD be scared.