CmdrSlander
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This is a blanket response to the demand that guns be banned by anti-gun groups, especially those with left-leaning politics:
Guns are an integral part of certain subsets of American culture. To you they may represent death and evil, but to other people, who are just as American as you are, they represent security, sporting, history and camaraderie. These views are not limited to any one region but they are more common in rural areas as well as the American south and midwest.
In the aforementioned cultural subsets, guns can play a major role in their social interaction, with gatherings occurring at shooting ranges, gun shops, and shooting competitions. The vast majority of these people do not seek to bring harm to anyone with their guns unless they are forced to in a self or home defense scenario. (Even weapons that are considered 'assault weapons' by some groups, such as the AR15, are frequently employed by hunters and target shooters. The AR15 was designed to be a lightweight and accurate firearm, capacity is variable at the discretion of the shooter, nothing about the AR15, or other 'assault weapons' is intrinsically evil.)
Though you may not understand nor seek to understand this culture, though you may fear it, you cannot seek to eliminate it. You would not do so in any other situation, you (liberals) have often advocated for cultural tolerance and the acceptance of differences no matter how large. You do not have to accept gun culture, but you should seek to coexist with it, not combat it.
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Alright THR, what do you think of this argument?
Guns are an integral part of certain subsets of American culture. To you they may represent death and evil, but to other people, who are just as American as you are, they represent security, sporting, history and camaraderie. These views are not limited to any one region but they are more common in rural areas as well as the American south and midwest.
In the aforementioned cultural subsets, guns can play a major role in their social interaction, with gatherings occurring at shooting ranges, gun shops, and shooting competitions. The vast majority of these people do not seek to bring harm to anyone with their guns unless they are forced to in a self or home defense scenario. (Even weapons that are considered 'assault weapons' by some groups, such as the AR15, are frequently employed by hunters and target shooters. The AR15 was designed to be a lightweight and accurate firearm, capacity is variable at the discretion of the shooter, nothing about the AR15, or other 'assault weapons' is intrinsically evil.)
Though you may not understand nor seek to understand this culture, though you may fear it, you cannot seek to eliminate it. You would not do so in any other situation, you (liberals) have often advocated for cultural tolerance and the acceptance of differences no matter how large. You do not have to accept gun culture, but you should seek to coexist with it, not combat it.
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Alright THR, what do you think of this argument?