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  • In the original animated version, sure. Because that version had good writing, especially for villains.

    Most well written villains are unapologetic and just naturally evil. They know they’re evil and they don’t care. For some reason, most movies nowadays (particularly Disney) now insist on their villains having some tragic backstory and thinking they’re good








  • As a country though we’re making the choice to prioritise lives over convenience, as we often do. And for that I am happy.

    Except restricting gun ownership isn’t necessary for that. The motivations for gun crimes are the same as any violent crime, in that they’re largely done out of desperation. Because of that, your best way to reduce gun crime is to reduce violent crime, which is done by improving people economic conditions: nationalize healthcare, have strong workers rights, properly tax the wealthy, improve environmental quality.

    As you can probably tell, the US really sucks at what I described, hence the higher rates of violence. What’s frustrating is that Europe did fix them, but also restricted access to guns and continually (and incorrectly) points to that as the reason they have little violent crime.

    Also, another thing to note is that a lot of gun control proponents tend to point solely to “gun crime” not “violent crime”. That’s disingenuous because they’re only looking at the methods, not the actual motivations




  • Don’t you mean “why do you need that many guns, you gun nut?”

    I’ve seen this argument used in the context that the average gun owner in the US owns 2-3 guns. For context, that’s not the number of guns in the US per citizen, it’s the number per gun owner.

    The person complaining was saying that nobody needs more than 1 gun. This is a good example of non-gun owners getting reactionary because they don’t know what they’re talking about. What if someone owns a rifle, shotgun, and a pistol? That’s 3 guns, all of which serve very different purposes.

    Plus a lot of people don’t seem to factor in that sport shooting is a thing. Personally, I regularly take a dynamics class, where you go through a variety of scenarios where you’re moving between positions while shooting. There’s also competition formats that do this too.

    Not only that, people don’t seem to understand that competition guns and everday carry guns are usually fairly different too. Much like how I wouldn’t want to drive a Lamborghini to pick up groceries or haul a trailer, I generally wouldn’t want to use a Sig P365 (a concealed carry gun) for a competition.



  • It gets really tiring watching people pretend like background checks don’t exist. There is no brick-and-mortar store where you can walk in, pay and walk out with a gun 5 minutes later no questions asked.

    And that’s doubly so for online orders. Those have to get transferred to a local FFL who go through the background check when you pick it up