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You are a horrible parent if you have a gun anywhere near your toddler.
You're not wrong, but guns are a civic religion here in the US. There are lots and lots and lots of guns that are easily accessible by toddlers.
Always (and I mean always) lock up your guns
Typical elitist liberal, where am I supposed to get the money for this gun safe? You want me to sell my brand new f-150?
Yes, yes I do, on account of it being stupid.
Sell the guns!
wait...
No. Don't be stupid. Use a credit card. You can have both, while playing for neither.
That would be nice.
Not much point having them if you never take them out of the safe.
From locked safe to locked transport bags to locked vehicle compartment.
Their whole shtick is that they need it for home protection. Doesn't make sense from that point of view.
Aren't guns supposed to be to fight tyrannical governments or something in the US? Where is that? I've been told by Americans that all the gun deaths were worth it in the case of what is currently happening there
Watch these 3 in sequence, they'll make a lot of sense out of the murican fascination with guns.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvxbZGjlv4
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wNtxtuQxUz8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QbXTDuwSVkk
You misunderstood. The tyrannical government they talk about is democracy.
I wish I was joking.
Yeah, that's all just bullshit. A thought-terminating cliche.
But a pretty good one if your toddler knows how to unlock your safe and operate a gun. That's pretty impressive.
Would be very shitty. If your toddler get your keys, and actually knows how to unlock a heavy safe that also has a fingerprint sensor.
Hurm duuhrr acyually your toddler needs a gun presnet to develop natural immunity, because there are no vaccines for guns checkmate. /s
I'm amused anyone would downvote you for making such an obviously correct statement.
If you have to have a gun, just put it in a gun safe. I get that there are so many dangerous places in the USA or places like Mexico.
Don't think everyone having guns is going to make things much safer. That said, I don't really have a horse in that fight.
When the governments have guns and you don't. That isn't safe. And crazies also like to go to places with gun free zones. It is always better to have a gun when you know other people already have them.
While true, that's not relevant, good parents and non-parents can also get killed by toddlers with guns.
Could have stopped there.
Could have stopped there...
Oh fuck, that reminds me... gotta go!
Not sure if you're talking about me or not, but I don't live in a country that requires a firearm at all times because anyone can buy them 2 for 1 on sale at Wal Mart, and also I would make an awful parent which is why I don't have kids.
Oh sorry, I was actually trying to make a self deprecating joke about myself. Or actually a hypothetical version of myself that had kids and was a bad parent.
Which is why I added the whole "talking about being a bad parent reminds me that I had to go take care of my kids" outro.
Clearly I'll need to work on my material.
Lmao no worries! OP is being a massive cunt and had to block him so I wasn't sure of the context. All good, friend <3
Blocking people just because you were completely wrong about guns, and who you don't agree with. Of course. Just live in your echo chamber. That's very cunty. You don't understand that real drug dealers have guns, you know, like the cartel.
He thinks real drugs dealers don't have guns lol, how adorable.
I think the comment was tongue in cheek and self depricating :P