A federal judge has blocked the state of Hawaii from enforcing a recently enacted ban on firearms on its prized beaches and in other areas including banks, bars and parks, citing last year's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights.

A federal judge has blocked the state of Hawaii from enforcing a recently enacted ban on firearms on its prized beaches and in other areas including banks, bars and parks, citing last year’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights.

  • SupraMario@lemmy.world
    18115·
    1 year ago

    There are a large number of people who carry, they’re not who you think they are and they’re not afraid or paranoid. Just like you put on your seatbelt and have a smoke detector and fire extinguisher in your home…they carry and think nothing of it.

    The amount of white privilege shit shows how much propaganda you lot drink.

    • kescusay@lemmy.world
      709·
      1 year ago

      Ouch. Guess I touched a nerve. Look, carry if it makes you feel better, but statistically, you’re in more danger from your own guns than you are from anyone else. The same cannot be said for seat-belts, smoke detectors, and fire extinguishers.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        14·
        1 year ago

        Damn Lemmy doesn’t alert on posts replies properly. So replying late to this one.

        That is completely false. You’re more likely to never use the firearm than be in danger of it. That myth was created by the anti-gun groups using suicides as their stats.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 year ago

        You also have safety nets, which helps with your crime level. There is a lot more we here in the states could do to curb our violence overall that doesn’t require new gun laws, but a loud majority are idiots who just call everything that involves safety nets and reforming criminals socialism/communism.

    • RazorsLedge@lemmy.world
      254·
      1 year ago

      I’m genuinely curious what you mean by your white privilege comment. Can you explain? What’s the relation?

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        12·
        1 year ago

        You and the rest of the anti-gun tools here think that only white people carry. You live in bubbles with no outside experience of what other races have to deal with on a daily basis. It’s actually quite hilarious how disconnected from reality a lot of you are.

        • RazorsLedge@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 year ago

          Such constructive interracial dialogue. Makes me warm and fuzzy. Thank you, my cherished non-white person.

    • CaptFeather@lemm.ee
      255·
      1 year ago

      How many times have you used your gun to resolve a situation that couldn’t have been solved without one? I legitimately don’t understand the mindset. What situation are people like you “preparing” for? Cause it honestly just seems like you’re afraid.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        The same amount of times I’ve had to use my fire extinguisher in my home. Zero. And I hope that number stays that way forever.

    • InternetUser2012@lemmy.world
      142·
      1 year ago

      My dad said the same thing. He carried a 357 on him. A man, he wasn’t scared… Well, that’s what he said, but in the end he was a racist baby that was afraid a poc was going to car jack him in his fucking chevy equinox. I don’t need a gun to defend myself, it’s getting there though with cult45, that’s a scary bunch of halfwits.

    • Furbag@lemmy.world
      41·
      1 year ago

      I’m not sure which is worse, someone who intentionally straps a deadly weapon to themselves in full view to be paraded around in public as a show of machismo, or someone who does so thoughtlessly as one would buckle a seatbelt.