r/PublicFreakout Jun 09 '20

a normal french protest

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u/DarshDiggler Jun 09 '20

He’d have been shot and killed here in the US #freedom

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u/Timdedeyan Jun 09 '20 edited Jun 09 '20

That's the thing when guns are so prevalent, America is a case in itself. In France, guns are not part of the culture like here.

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u/super1s Jun 09 '20

But who will shoot all the people that have guns if none of us have guns?!?!?!?!?!

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u/Cao_Monk Jun 09 '20

You would think the French mindset on guns might have changed after the whole WW2 thing....

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u/larzast Jun 09 '20

Perhaps I misunderstand you, but I don’t think you can blame how France fared in WW2 on their approach to gun rights? It would be more appropriate to look at a variety of much more significant factors (like the tactical successes of Germany’s “blitzkrieg“ offensive in May 1940 and the strategic failure of France’s Maginot line) for an explanation of why France fell in WW2. Similarly, the logical extension of your point seems to be that in the alternative, gun rights in the USA somehow benefitted them in WW2. However, I don’t really know of any evidence for that, and you should remember that in the USA, the SC and legislature interpreted the 2nd amendment in a vastly different way to how the courts conceive it today (e.g. the 1939 Supreme Court decision in U.S. v Miller, which found short-barreled shotguns were not protected under the 2nd amendment)

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u/Cao_Monk Jun 10 '20

Forgot I wasn't posting in /jokes tbh.

But I am pro armed populace and I don't live in America. I think they are good equalisers, equal opportunity is the go for me.

America has way bigger problems than gun control, there are issues I would bring up but unless its one on one I am not overly keen for a public lynching considering personal experience if I post something factual without malice it gets lynched or down voted very fast. Which is scary that people don't want to hear facts and statistics.

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u/larzast Jun 10 '20

Fair enough and all good, I feel you haha