What about a coup forced you to refer to us as “americans”?

Always thought that was weird when I used to work on a navy base, and I don’t know if it is typical of the other branches too, but they seemed to have a slightly altered version of their uniforms pushed on them every 6 months or so.

I vaguely remember being somewhat shocked at what Chicago PD has the “good guys” do and justifying it.

Harry Potter fan, should have figured.

We hear shitty “solutions” all the time, yours is nothing new. Most of this thread is just taking shots at us, knowing full well the solution isn’t as simple as “just do what everyone else did” when other countries never had a gun problem like ours to begin with.

See? You have no ideas, you could have just said that instead of acting like we can just solve this overnight.

Not much of a solution if you know it won’t work. I’d still like to know what you propose someone with a crazy neighbor that wants them dead should do if defending oneself with a gun isn’t acceptable.

“Just do something a large portion of the country would kill to stop from happening” isn’t a good solution, but you know that. If reason was going to work, we would have used it decades ago.

Those countries don’t have the culty gun fetishism we do.

Well I can’t go back in time to preemptively stop them from getting a gun in the first place, I’d love to hear any suggestions you have for that situation.

Are you implying we do it out of hubris and everyone else is somehow gaslit into it or forced to?

The other realistic option is that he shoots me empty handed. No one is going to take his gun and no one is going to save me in time.

Tell that to everyone else that refers to us as “Americans,” we’re far from the only people to do it.

Assuming I don’t die immediately somehow, I doubt I’d last long without anti-rejection meds for my transplanted heart, probably not a pleasant way to go out either.

Lets not be deliberately obtuse, you’re clearly meant to be using it with your feet.