Pogbom

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Pogbom ,

Ehh I dunno... I'm as atheist as anyone with an IQ above 60, but I think religion is just a convenient scapegoat for mental illness here. I'm pretty sure someone who shoots strangers on the highway would have done it in a world without religion too, and they would say it's a different mystical force that made them do it. I don't think Christianity actually moved this person to do this.

Pogbom ,

It's so close to reality that I'll forgive it :P

Pogbom , (edited )

Politics has always been is currently a game of the least offensive though. Every can candidate will have things they give you and things they take away. If your two choices are between "I will genocide" and "I will genocide even harder" it seems wild to me to help the second one win by abstaining from the first.

Oh and the second one doesn't think women are people and thinks climate change is fake.

Pogbom ,

Ah, I stand corrected!

Pogbom ,

"I wanna" Trump

Pogbom ,

I'm surprised he didn't call out Canada. Turns out Alberta's oilsands were producing 6700% more emissions than they reported.

Pogbom ,

Your case is for reasonable vs unreasonable expenses though. When someone can afford thousands for a gun and many other recurring expenses, a $50-100/month policy is completely reasonable. At the very least, it doesn't separate gun ownership into different wealth classes.

Pogbom ,

Why are "the poors" buying expensive guns? If you're buying a tool that can accidentally and instantly murder someone very easily, and you have no way to pay for that mistake, then gun ownership is too expensive for you.

Pogbom ,

I appreciate the info because frankly I didn't know they were that cheap. I still don't think that absolves someone of being able to pay for an accidental injury/death caused by a tool that's designed to do specifically that.

Pogbom ,

It isn't if they want to own a tool that can accidentally and immediately end a life. The guy below you made a joke about a car and insurance, but that's actually a great point. Just because you can find a $300 car doesn't mean you're absolved from getting insurance in case you crash or kill someone. And that's a car, something that's crucial to a lot of people's survival. Even better argument for a gun.

Pogbom ,

"Undue" is a word with a huge range of meaning though. You're buying a device whose sole purpose is to kill or injure, and it's exceptionally good at doing those things accidentally. If you want to own a device like that, accident insurance is not all undue.

In fact it's kinda surprising that people can get guns without it. I feel like in an alternate universe where gun insurance was the norm, people would think it's insane to remove that requirement. It's a requirement for cars which are now less deadly than guns and arguably way more important to people's survival, but people think gun ownership is such a marker of liberty that they're willing to put the rest of society at risk for it.

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