The firearms subreddit is really unhinged

Man if only it was actually like how cars are regulated.

Required training, tests, insurance needs and has to be safe for others.

Funny comparing guns to cars. I need a drivers license to operate a car, something I will be tested for and have to renew regularly. A car has a registration number that is registered to me and a license plate with the state that gets renewed regularly. Also insurance is required, the cost of which goes up if I'm irresponsible.

...killed 10 people on the interstate.

Regardless of the rest, this is like saying that guns would be confiscated because someone shot 10 people at a shooting range.

If it were a regular occurrence that people were driving cars through classrooms, like it is with shooting into them, then the conversation around regulating cars would look a lot more similar to the one about guns.

I enjoy and own guns. Ive used them for hunting, I’ve used one in self defense (no shots fired). Sensible laws regarding guns are just fine by me.

Not trying to compare these two things, but as a German it always stroke me as odd that many Americans will go to any lengths in order to defend their right to bear arms, but they all totally accept the fact that there's not a single highway in the US without a speed limit.

In Germany, it seems to be the other way round. Noone really cares that guns are strictly regulated but most people will fiercely oppose the introduction of speed limits with the same level of fanaticism of American gun nuts.

To drive that car, she had to take a class, get experience under an instructor/valid driver, take a paper test, take a practical test.

This is not the gotcha you think it is. As a gun owner, I'm for responsible gun control, and this meme is anti-gc.

This argument is bad and you should feel bad

Funny, the only politician I've ever heard actually talk about taking away/seizing guns was Donald Trump

They must all really hate him for that, right?

But for real though, maybe we do also get rid of cars? Why not build more public transit and less drunk driving accidents? The only especially bad part of this is the police.

How does one drunk driver even kill 10 people before dying themselves?

make up stories

It's an analogy, that's how they work.

And it's not a really flawed one. But the big difference is that Cars are tools, they have legitimate and important usecases outside killing people and they are much harder to kill people with since it's relatively easy to flee from a car, they tend to get stuck in tight spaces

Which imo makes cars okay to own.

But yes, cars are also super dangerous, look at the Christmas-market attacks over here in Europe. And nobody wants to ban cars.

I'm up for banning all cars slowly.

I like the implication that guns are equal to cars in terms of necessity. Some people can't leave their homes without driving, and some people (cowards) can't leave their suburban house without their emotional support weapon.

This is some peak dumb shit.

I agree that cars are over-dispensed.

I wonder how they feel about sobriety checkpoints.

The 2nd amendment literally doesn’t provide them the right to a weapon.

If it did, particularly for the reason they say, literally killing a politician would be legal if you could prove “their tyranny”. That’s the biggest load of bullshit.

It’s a simple provision that provides the States with the right to arm their own militias.

So many chode Americans believe “theyre the miltia!!!”. The government also defines that, though, and it’s … not everyone. Its only males 18-45, and women in the Guard. That’s it. So the only people the 2nd amendment could even begin to logically and legally allow a weapon are healthy, able bodied males 18-45 and trained women. And they don’t really need to prove theyre able bodied, so every fat guy with a gun is breaking constitutional law

Is this the most fuckcars poster ever? NGL I lowkey love the implication that the only purpose for cars is to kill people 🥰

I know lots of Dems and they practically all own guns.

NRA shills in this thread shoukd be ashamed of themselves. But we know they're not. They don't care about other people. Just money. If Hell is real, they deserve it.

i dont get it

For a pro-gun sublemmy, there are a lot of anti gun comments.

Do you know what a metaphor is?

That's essentially how gun control works though.

Maybe the biggest workout your AR-15 gets is the monthly 2-gun PCSL match. But your state has decided that a mass murder in a different state is a good enough reason to ban semi-automatic rifles with box magazines, and now you're a felon for simply possessing something that was legal when you bought it.

And there's not really an end point, because all the bans in the world don't change human nature. Germany is cracking down on people carrying pocket knives because stabbings are up sharply. In England you can't carry a screwdriver without good cause. Banning tools doesn't change the material circumstances that lead to violence. (Not that either Republicans or Democrats want to do that; Dems want to ban guns, Republicans want to ban anyone that isn't a straight white christian from owning them.)