Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 48

@design_RG And yes I am bias, I am the proud owner of an AR-15.

@design_RG Yes it is quite sad people kill themselves.

Though the fallacy in that line of thinking is quite plan when you apply it to almost anything other than guns.

"In europe we banned guns, now gun based death has went down"...

"In crazytown we banned vaccines, now vaccine related death has went down"...

Yes banning a thing reduces death by that thing, on the surface to those who are acting on emotion, not data, that seems like a win, but as we see when you view the bigger picture it isnt.

Yes we can see that if you ban guns gun related deaths go down, but that completely ignores the fact that all other forms of homicide go up, and by a huge margin more often than not.

So yea sadly the situation everyone thinks they see in america is sadly a pretty strong indication that the people who "see" it are also the people not informed enough or objective enough to understand what they are seeing. Since any objective look at the data paints a very different picture.

The idea that being armed is inherently wrong or disturbing is the bias. Being capable of self defense and being able to save others should they be attacked is hardly unholy.

Your opinions are always welcome and you are welcome to discuss to as much or as little detail as you wish. But I wouldnt worry too much about people who might want to censor us for my or your opinions. We **want** those people to block us, thats in our best interest, so best not to try to stop it. We obviously dont want people intolerant of different opinions to be filling up our feeds.

@design_RG And the other point. America isnt armed because of the need for protest or politicial change. We are armed for 2 reasons:

1) to prevent people like hitler, which as we've seen the european policy of banning an armed citizen has a worse track record than America, so it would appear American's tactic is more effective.

2) To reduce overall violence. In this regard it is also effective, as the numbers seem to suggest (banning guns shows a distinct increase in overall homicide and violent crimes around the world).

@design_RG Actually seems to be working really well in the USA, provided you arent hearing a propaganda spin on the numbers. In fact often times int he USA we see when we try to ban or restrict guns the death toll gets so out of control we wind up needing to reverse the ban and then numbers go back down. So from my perspective as a Data Scientist the numbers appear to be in favor of guns, though I do recognize there is a lot of corrupt "spin" on the numbers people hear sadly.

Mil spec is a bit of a misunderstood term. All mil spec means is that it is a reliable gun made out of high quality metals. It means nothing with regard to stopping power or rate of fire. Its a term I find is used with almost complete ignorance as to what it means in context.

Why would being armed be unholy, that sounds silly to me. There is nothing remotely morally wrong about a gun. Thats just hyperbole. In fact your whole response strikes me more as conditioning than anything else.

"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."

"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."

Two of my favorite Mother Teresa quotes.

@bernd You think I care if you care? I dont even know who you are let alone care about if your interested in my opinions or not.

You and your 4 followers have a good day now.

@realcaseyrollins No I do not mean do you accept it as legitimate.

So to understand, regardless of your excuse, you think it is morally wrong to be prideful of being LGBT but think its perfectly ok for you to be prideful of being straight.

If that is the case you are 100% morally defunct.

Who is trying to say its more virtuous to be non-straight. I dont think ive ever seen that as a public message from anyone other than a rare few extremist nut cases who were the exception, not the rule.

What a lot of people ARE saying is it is wrong to be exclusionary of LGBT (such as seeing it as sinful or create a community which does not include LGBT welfare along side that of straights). No one is attacking conservatives for being straight lets be absolutely clear about that.

Thankfully this happened in texas where right to carry laws means any shooter in a public space isnt likely to get very far.

Yup...

@realcaseyrollins No rush, take your time

LOL doggo!

#dog

@cowanon She is pretty :)

@cowanon ehhh she didnt say anything all the insightful buh eh ive seen more edgy lordy edgelords before :)

@cowanon this should be interesting ::watches::

@cowanon I'm not a centrist, though I can understand why it might be the best term you have to describe what I am.

A centrist implies on every issue you take some moderate middle ground between the two. That is sometimes true for me, but more often it takes one of two forms

1) The idea I find to be largely fundemental so either embrace it in a fully left of fully right manner

2) I do not find left or right solutions to work at all and have a lack of insight as to the nuance, clouded by pureism to the point of not developing remotely useful solutions. In this case I tend to pick a solution that is completely off the spectrum

I'll give examples of 1 and 2 to make it easier, but the vast majority is #2 for me

1) My view on guns is mostly in line with conservatives. I feel there should be little to no restrictions, that any gun the government is allowed to own and use against its own citizenry should be able to be purchased by its citizens. I do not approve of govt registries and such.

2) My view on healthcare is a good example. I do not support free-market or socialized healthcare. My solution would be co-op based healthcare where the owners are the people purchasing the insurance/service thus eliminating greed but keeping free market pressures.

Pretty much me every day...

@realcaseyrollins Well thats just it, simply being proud of ones sexuality as a straight person is perfectly fine. But LGBT pride is not a reaction to straight pride (which was not really a thing). It was largely a reaction to LGBT hate historically.

The reason they are treated different isnt due to the pride itself but the motivation behind expressing the pride. An LGBT person has pride because of their fight against oppression. A straight person has pride (usually, and in this case) merely as a reaction to LGBT pride.

So obviously the straight pride will be met with far more judgement due to the nature and origin of the pride.

If you take a probiotic and an antibiotic at the same time will your stomach explode from an antimatter explosion?

@realcaseyrollins Certainly nothing wrong with that. But would you be celebrating it if the LGBT community werent celebrating theirs. Is it reactive (not that its a bad thing if it is, but if so one needs to ask why it prompted a reaction at all)