Ok another thing people haven’t really touched on is government restrictions on dangerous shit generally. I’m not just talking about guns, but also cars. When I was in the states I saw so many car accidents and bits of car on the road. That doesn’t need to happen. It turns out that if you have proper driving tests and mandatory classes, people don’t crash as much. Same with guns though. Owning a gun is fine if you learn how to properly use and store it.
Kinda disappointed in this thread, was hoping to find things that Americans on Lemmy aren’t ready to hear. Everything here seems like the usual complains that most Americans on Lemmy and even Reddit already aware of.
Where to begin…
But I’ll touch on something no one else has here.
Shopping carts. It’s mindblowing to me that the country that sent men to the moon still hasn’t figured out that its easier for everyone if they turn on all 4 wheels rather than the 2 front ones.
That way you can slide your cart sideways to make room for other shoppers. And turning it takes no effort.
And even… even if it is some weird cost cutting thing. Why not make them turn on the rear wheels? That would still make it easier than in the front. Since you steer the cart from the rear.
Get your shit together. Put gun controll aside, put your dumb ass two party politics aside and focus on what matters. Your godawful shopping carts.
The USA is neither the best country nor the worst country. It’s just one of the countries.
From all the comments, this is one of them
The gun rights y’all have?
Now, most people would tell you that Gun Control Works and that you should just do that and get less dead kids per month which is a generally good thing.
… But here’s another thing to consider. As long as you’re allowed to purchase weapons for cheap and easy.
You do realise you can in fact do something about the assholes in your government and your oligarchies with those guns, right? That they can be used for more than just killing children?
Luigi Mangione seemed to get it.
They know that, they stroke their gun boners to that very thought.
Except the tyranny they’re afraid of is someone coming for their guns, or “communism.” But they don’t know what communism is and aren’t aware that the guns aren’t the rights they’re losing.
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You’re describing the MAGA crowd.
All I’m saying is that there are plenty of non-MAGA Americans out there. Like 55% of the country or something? And that those people can get guns just as easily as the MAGAts do – And that “terrified children and minorities” are not the only human persons that can be targeted by a firearm.
I know they won’t
They lack the spine for it (or the spinal injuries?)
But that’s precisely what makes this a case of ‘thing they aren’t ready to hear’
Gasoline prices are heavily subsidized in the US, the gas price you complain about is cheap compared to other countries.
The level of uneducation in the US is a threat to the entire species. Most of Ylyour people are uneducated, fat and dangerous. After the last election, I have lost hope in the US as a collectivity, you deserve your unfair system because you chose it. You elected a convict rapist, fellon, racist, fat billionaire who doesn’t pay taxes and tried to steal the election, your deserve to be treated the way you will be, you made a choice.
They have guns to protect against corrupt governments and from what I can tell … they’re using it to protect the corrupt …?
O. Right. And I’m sure your country of residence is squeaky clean. No corruption at all right?
Not what I said.
Get out of here with those propaganda techniques, please
I’m sure you will address each and every one of these fallacies correct?
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Hasty Generalization: The argument assumes that most or all people in the U.S. are “uneducated, fat, and dangerous,” without providing sufficient evidence or accounting for the diversity of the population.
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Ad Hominem: The criticism targets individuals based on personal attributes or perceived character flaws (“fat,” “uneducated”) rather than addressing systemic or factual issues.
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Straw Man: The argument oversimplifies and exaggerates the actions of voters or the qualities of the elected individual, constructing a distorted view of their intentions or rationale.
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Slippery Slope: By claiming that the U.S.'s level of “uneducation” is a threat to the entire species, the argument leaps to a catastrophic conclusion without sufficient reasoning.
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False Dilemma: It suggests that the outcome of the election leaves no room for nuance, implying that all Americans are complicit and deserving of the system without considering other factors such as political constraints, voter suppression, or dissenting voters.
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We can’t understand how millions can vote for a senile, convicted sexual predator as president…
You have a massive obesity problem that is killing you and it is not normal.
Universal health care is better than whatever you have, for 99.9% of the people 99.9% of the time. And it always was. And always will be.
Gun control works.
And OK maybe it doesn’t solve the problem 100%, but it solves it 99%, and that’s a lot of schoolkids that aren’t dead any more. Look at any first world country for working examples; I’m in the UK, and yes we still have some gun violence, but it’s a whole load less than it would have otherwise been.
And it’s incredibly short sighted to reject any solution that doesn’t solve a problem 100%. Partial solutions are good.
A while ago I watched a live stream of CSPAN (I think?) where the House failed to form a government for several consecutive days. The way the entire process started with a prayer, and the many references to religion throughout, is just as disturbing as the personality cult around Stalin. That whole gang is fucked in the head.
Your population is essentially being farmed by corporations.
Does “a foreign language” count?
Yes, you really need to rewrite that constitution of yours and declaring something “unconstitutional” doesn’t win you an argument, it makes you look like a brainwashed idiot. Just saying.
Yes! with any discussion, Americans are more concerned whether it’s inline with the founding fathers’ intentions, than if it makes sense in today’s world. They should focus on finding the best solution, not the most constitutional one. Every idiot running around with a gun is a bad idea in a modern city. Maybe it made sense 200 years ago on a farm. But let’s not live in the past.
