• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. I take it back. Gun violence is cool. 40k dead every year is a small price to pay to avoid whatever is happening on Terf Island. I am sitting here with a kabuki dragon cao cao memorial addition deathstabber right now so Keir Sturmer fuck off.

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      I seriously think we need to investigate what is happening in the minds of euros that they’ve effectively removed weapons from their society and have little or no violent crime but they still feel the need to expand arms control regimes to the point that simple pocket knives are considered a serious threat to public safety and order. There’s something happening there. There is *psychology".

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        its middle class suburban paranoia, the 24 hour news cycle, and racism, thats it.

        i’ve recently moved to a large city from the countryside and my grandma is terrified of me getting stabbed. no one she knows has ever been stabbed, but it’s on the news so it must be happening every day. its just what those hoodied youths get up to. the thing is i’m the only young person i’ve ever known who carries a knife - i always have, i’m from a fucking farm. it’s a knife that’s literally illegal in my country, we just don’t have cops nearby.

        the real kicker: SHE gave me that knife when i was fucking 13

        doesn’t amerikkka have something similar about how every street corner in detroit/chicargo/wherever is swarmed by teens who are Definitely smoking fentynol? its those same PMC delusions, but with violence instead of drugs. if ALL violent crime were eliminated, the news would just turn to some other shit to rile people up over.

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          I remember a period in American news history where, every night, for at least 20 minutes, for months or possibly years, there was a segment on the dangers of salmonella in the kitchen, salmonella cultured from samples in a seemingly clean kitchen, salmonella here, salmonella there, salmonella everywhere. I guess nothing was happening that year. But whatever the news is trying to scare people with, I always think about all those salmonella scare segments from when i was a kid.

          doesn’t amerikkka have something similar about how every street corner in detroit/chicargo/wherever is swarmed by teens who are Definitely smoking fentynol?

          Yeah, we absolutely do. All the white boomers living in the suburbs that surround all our cities are terrified to go in to the cities because they think it’s constant guerilla warfare with roaming gangs of murder-thieves. They really, seriously believe it and the fear is real. It’s bizarre and absurd. They live in this firmly entrenched delusional world created by the 24 hour news cycle.

          Meanwhile there’s less violent crime in the US than at any point in the last, idk, 50 years.

          Something I think about a lot, under one of the law codes in “Viking” Europe, apparently slaves were legally allowed to carry a knife of a given size and use it in self defense even against free people. That just sticks with me - Medieval slaves were allowed to carry a knife, trusted to do so, it was considered normal and unexceptional. Knives are one of our oldest, most important tools. The idea of free people being forbidden from carrying a simple knife under threat of being thrown in a cage strikes me as irredeemably perverse.