GiddyGap@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoNon-religious Republicans of Lemmy, how do you reconcile your non-religious convictions with a party that bases a lot of its policies on religion?message-squaremessage-square160fedilinkarrow-up1224arrow-down127file-text
arrow-up1197arrow-down1message-squareNon-religious Republicans of Lemmy, how do you reconcile your non-religious convictions with a party that bases a lot of its policies on religion?GiddyGap@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square160fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareClent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up102arrow-down11·1 year agoThe dilemma being that anyone who acts this way probably shouldn’t own guns. Placing gun ownership over all other personal freedoms is an unhealthy obsession. People who think they need weapons in case are not so different than those who think the rapture will occur in their lifetime.
minus-squareRGB3x3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoPeople think they need guns just in case only because so many other people have guns and because our gun violence is out of control. It’s an arms race leading only to more gun deaths.
The dilemma being that anyone who acts this way probably shouldn’t own guns.
Placing gun ownership over all other personal freedoms is an unhealthy obsession.
People who think they need weapons in case are not so different than those who think the rapture will occur in their lifetime.
People think they need guns just in case only because so many other people have guns and because our gun violence is out of control.
It’s an arms race leading only to more gun deaths.