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The responses to your comment are mind-blowingly stupid and small-minded. And that's not even to mention the ones that totally misrepresent what you said. It's very disappointing and disheartening.
Thank you. I really like the Lemmy community, but most are extremely anti-gun. I've been able to show multiple people IRL how much fun guns can be when used responsibly, but it's much harder to do online.
But you absolutely don't need to own a gun to have fun with one. You can go to a shooting range, they'll give you one, you have your fun and go home. No everyday citizen owns a gun in that scenario, but fun was had. (This is how it works in the EU mostly.) I have had my fair share of fun with guns and I agree with you: they are indeed great fun! But I've never felt the need to own a gun because of that.
No gun ranges where I live. Very rural, tons of space. If I want to shoot a gun, the most practical way is - by far - simply owning it myself. I also trust myself to take care of it and keep it safe. Considering how far I'd have to drive to get to a gun range, and how unsafe driving is statistically... I'd say it's also safest to take out that variable.
Not needing something is never a good argument to not have something. I don't need the vast majority of the things I own, but I do have them.
I understand your point. Not necessarily agree, but understand.
Anybody that takes the sport of shooting seriously owns their gun. That's also the way it was in much of the EU before gun laws there got stupid, especially in the UK, and that wasn't even that long ago.
"Need" has absolutely nothing to do with it.
I'll be honest, Lemmy has some of the worst showings of good faith discussion I've ever seen. I'm glad you like the community, but be careful not to spend too much time here. It's already unwelcoming to many people, and I certainly see more and more extremist rhetoric on it every time I log in.
I grew up around guns and totally agree with you as far as that goes, but my larger point, the source of my disappointment where this discussion is concerned, is that people are misrepresenting what you actually said in the first place.
It's one thing to disagree with an argument, but it's an entirely different thing to disagree with an argument that no one actually made.
My complaint here is that most of the comments in opposition to your initial comment were made on the basis of bad-faith or idiot misunderstanding of your original point.
In other words, my complaint is not about anyone's position so much as it is about how they use rational (or irrational) thoughts to arrive at said conclusions.
Don't forget the other issue, half these people could actually agree with you, and they'd still cry and downvote, just because. For a place that was supposed to solve half the issues of Reddit, it's just as bad if not worse.