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I am genuinely curious about this. I have an open mind on this issue.

Firearms. Aside from the culture surrounding them in the US as a "god given right", what is the benefit to you as an individual citizen of owning a rifle?

Is it for hunting or the shooting range or do you feel you need that level of firepower for protection?

To give some background on where I'm coming from: I'm a Brit, so no guns here unless you're a farmer or a criminal who can get them anyway, but I'm also in favour of individual freedom and could see the benefit of a handgun for protection.

While rifles undoubtedly look cool, I can't see what practical benefits they offer the individual especially wrt personal protection, so I'm honestly curious to hear views on this - from Americans and other widely armed countries like Switzerland etc.

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

I love this thread.

I opened a discussion on one of the most controversial and emotionally charged topics in politics.

All the responses have been totally civil genuine attempts at education that lay down their arguments rationally and clearly.

I don't even know anywhere else on the internet where that would happen these days.

And to be clear on my motivation for making it: I'm not opposed to the idea of an armed population, especially when there's an extremely armed state.

It's more just that the entire culture I've known my whole life ignores the issue entirely. There is zero debate. It's taken for granted people shouldn't have guns.

So I want to take in the perspectives of others in cultures where this isn't the case.

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Jac 2y ago

I travel to the most crime-ridden parts of some of the most violent crime ridden cities in the US. I have done so for twenty years and never carried a pistol for protection. My rationale is that most violent crime has a context. If you aren’t a part of that context, you are not likely to be victimized. Recently though, the mass shootings have no context but the destruction of random innocent people. I carry a pistol everywhere now, laws be damned. I refuse to die cowering at the hand of some mentally ill assailant with body armor, a rifle, and a death wish.