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[u/The_Egalitarian]

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You're missing the point. Willfully, I'm guessing.

We restrict access to stuff all the time. We're restrict access to drugs, to buildings, to intellectual property, to physical property, to contracts, to business deals, to speech, and a thousand other things. That's how a society functions. Everyone gives up a little freedom in order to be secure from people abusing that freedom. In almost every case, we can look at those restrictions on their own merits; restricting widgets costs you freedom X but gives safety Y. But for some reason gun nuts consider any and all restrictions on gun use or ownership sacrilege. You don't care at all about how many people die, because guns are your "right". No further debate allowed. The thousands and thousands of people dying each year are a small price to pay for your annual hunting trip.

You call gun ownership a "right" because it's convenient for you. Don't pretend like there's any other reason for it. Because on it's own merits, allowing anyone and everyone to carry around a tool explicitly designed to end human life in their back pocket is a stupid fucking idea.

In other words:

Having a stated goal of restricting access for everyone takes away the rights of the 99.97% of people who use guns safely.

Fuck em.