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I hate guns. They are engineered from the ground up to take lives of other people. That is their sole purpose. To kill (lemm.ee)

submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by Emmie@lemm.ee to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I hate people who treat them like some toys and fantasize about them. That makes me think they are in some sort of death cult. That they found socially acceptable way to love violence.

I would still get one for safety but it is a tool made for specifically one thing. To pierce the skin and rip through the inner organs of a person.

They can serve a good purpose but they are fundamentally grim tools of pain and suffering. They shouldn’t be celebrated and glorified in their own right, that is sick. They can be used to preserve something precious but at a price to pay.

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[–] knightly@pawb.social 48 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

Luigi did more with three bullets than peaceful protest has accomplished in the last 25 years.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world -3 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

I'm curious what you think he's accomplished. Cause the dead guy was replaced immediately with someone just as evil, and the anesthesia coverage thing you all love to claim was already in the works weeks before Luigi.

Nothing changed. It's still business as usual for health insurance companies.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 18 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

He wiped out 6 months of UHC stock price gains overnight and caused Cigna to commit to expanding their accountability, transparency and customer service departments and tie executive compensation to customer satisfaction metrics.

What did peaceful protest get you in the last two decades? Romneycare is all I can think of and the insurance mandate was a huge step backwards that wipes out any benefit that might be seen from the mandatory coverage for pre-existing conditions.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)