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[–] osarusan@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Not interested in American opinion regrading this one

Kind of shitty to assume that all Americans have the same opinion, no?

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Experience has taught me that unfortunately, while you don't all have the same opinion, most do reject the simple premise of the original comment, for various reasons, whether they're "left" or right.

[–] osarusan@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just so you've had the experience of meeting one, I am an American who is for banning guns.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz -3 points 10 months ago
[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Everyone from a country has a the same opinion. That newborn baby in Russia agrees with Putin on everything. There aren't +8 billion humans with their own pov, there are about 190 of us.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Well, there can of course be different opinions, but in reality every type of pro-gun argument is debunked (from my point of view) in r/gunsarecool. There's a megathread or sidebar that counter-argues every single opinion with proper citation, and also counter-argues every single counter-counter-argument. And then every counter-counter-counter-counter argument is also debunked there.

And to me thus the US pro-gun arguments look like just an exhibition of arguments I've seen and already countered better than I can.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Oh how magnanimous of you. Thank you for allowing more than one opinion to exist in a nation of 329,000,000 people. You sir are a king among men.

[–] osarusan@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

That didn't address what I said at all, so I'll just repeat it:

Kind of shitty to assume that all Americans have the same opinion, no?