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He was pointing out how guns aren’t the only thing used by terrorists

Y’all would know that if you used your brain

And also, if citizens were allowed to defend themselves with arms, maybe, just maybe someone in the immediate area would have been armed and this shit would have ended before 6 people were dead and dozens more wounded.

Please give me an example from real life where this ACTUALLY happened? You can sit there and theorize that your 2nd Amendment right can save the world, when in reality, it’s proven many times over that it does the exact opposite.

I have neither the time nor the implication to explain the facts of life to you, but it is well established in fact and statistics that civilians in the US use firearms Every. Single. Day. to protect themselves and others.

Live in ignorance if you like, it’s not my country being torn apart while police flee the scene.

There have been over 26,000 incidents involving gun violence this year alone in America with 6,400+ deaths and 12,000+ injuries. Only just over 800 of those incidents were defensive. And what were the majority defending themselves against….GUNS.

England cant protect ourselves from bombs using guns. The deaths yesterday night were caused from a vehicle running people over and people being stabbed. The police shot down the attackers quickly as possible and only 7 ppl have died so far. If those guys had guns on them they could have killed dozens in the time it takes for one bystander to pull out their own gun. Not to forget the attackers could have done the shooting from the van making it easier to avoid being shot themselves. Guns WOULD have made the situation worse as the attackers wouldn’t have had to exit the vehicle at all and the deaths could have been incredibly higher just from the london bridge alone. If they had made it to Burough market which is likely then the deaths could have been 50+ in that area as its easier to shoot people than run and stab them and gun wounds are more deadly on average.

You Americans like to defend your gun laws to the ground because you like the power of having a weapon and you think it makes you look cool. You can use all the excuses about defending yourselves but thats what a good police force and army are for. And in the very rare occasion a gun is needed for someone to defend themselves from another person without a gun. Say someone breaks into a person’s house and the police can’t arrive in time, a gun isn’t the only option if anything in an imbeciles hands (most americans) it can end up worse. You don’t even need a gun in that situation as a baseball bat is a better bet and easier to stop kids from killing their classmates with (a common occurence in america but non existent in europe).

Don’t want to be rude. But any excuse you use for gun control makes you an idiot as there’s always an alternative. Try using your head. Most people wouldn’t need guns if dangerous people didn’t have access to them in the first place.

I’m sure those numbers are bunk, but even still, how many of those incidents are suicides?
Statistically, around 70% of them.

So.

@bills-bastards you are banging your head against the wall……We have guns because we think that is makes us look cool? I know people who wouldn’t look cool if they wore an ice suit and they still believe in having protection for themselves and their family. Apparently you have gun envy @lalisas-bitch

Gun envy? Yeah I’m envious that my brother won’t get shot whilst at school by a maniac with a gun. I’m envious I won’t be shot walking out of my home for no reason. All genuine fears of the youth of America with all the mass shootings that take place in schools.

I genuinely want to understand the appeal cause I don’t understand the reasons people use? Defense? Bullshit. Hunting? Bullshit. Please give me a REAL and proper reason any random 18 year old without a license or mental health screening with no background in gun history or how to actually use a gun should be able to buy one?

Gun laws don’t mean banning guns. The laws could just make it harder to get them which people would be willing to do if they actually needed them. But if they were actually put into place you would find less people buying them. A liscence, mental health screening and a lesson about the dangers and how to use a gun isn’t much to ask when its a weapon that a child can get hold of easily and injure themselves.

If you can give me a genuine reason you think every day citzens should be walking around with a gun that actually has some logic and can’t be questioned then fine even if I dont agree at least i would have some understanding of where you’re coming from.

So without a reason that isn’t recycled garbage I can only be lead to believe that yeah people do just want guns to look cool and pro-gun people do nothing to convince me otherwise.

My country has had a few serious terrorist attacks recently but they wouldn’t have been stopped with guns like Trump implied. My country works differently to yours and I’m happy we do. There’s enough to worry about everyday without the prospect of one of my classmates or a stranger carrying a gun. We have some knife crime but every country does. Australia and Europe and most of East Asia have tight gun laws and we’re happy. The large majority of all these countries are happy without guns so why cant America be a bit more thoughtful that guns may not necessarily be the answer.

I mean isn’t it time you stopped clinging to the second amendment.

ah, the entitlement of these Americans telling other countries they know best. like alright fine, if you think the 2A works in your country but the sheer arrogance to assume one can impose their worldview on everyone else, and ignore our totally different history and culture. every situation must be filtered through the prism of this myopic UScentric worldview without any consideration for how other democratic countries can reasonably disagree in our ways of life for good reasons.

they keep talking as if stopping a terrorist attack is the same as an armed homeowner confronting an intruder or even dealing with a mugger. there were crowds of people at london bridge, the situation was chaotic and fast moving, there were many KIDS with FAMILIES. there is the very real risk some citizen playing hero with a gun might have shot many bystanders by accident. i mean, police bullets in this case already hit one bystander by accident. i don’t want to imagine the situation with someone who isn’t even trained specially for this. i’ve yet to seriously hear about an incident in the US where a marauding gunman or terrorist (not just a mugger or burglar) was successfully put down by a citizen with a gun as opposed to the police, or at least somebody with serious military and counter terrorism training. theres a lot more you need to learn than just how to shoot, in terms of responding to these incidents. 

plus lmao. talking about the ‘police fleeing’? did it escape bills-bastards that armed cops shot the attackers dead 8 minutes after the first call? that one of the people in the hospital with stab wounds was an unarmed officer who confronted the knife-wielding terrorists with his baton? how a cop was killed in the attack on westminster bridge? the police here sure as hell aren’t perfect but they’re not ‘fleeing’. they think we have ‘gun envy’? these jokers need to go out and learn more about the world. 

You gotta understand there’s nothing rational about the thinking of those knuckleheads up there. The gun debate in the US is, on the Pro side, entirely ideological. They believe guns would have stopped those terrorists the same way they believe Jesus can walk on water, that Big Trucks make men Big Boys, that drinking Budweiser makes you the most charismatic and entertaining person on the planet, and that John Wayne, a Navy reject and college dropout who never did a hard day’s work in his entire life, was the epitome of Manliness™.

Reasoning with them ain’t gonna work cause everytime you say “a guy with a knife is less dangerous than a guy with a gun and there’s no way an armed civilian would make any beneficial difference in these situations, as real life has repeatedly shown” they hear “Holllywood action movies aren’t real life”, which is basically the same as telling them there is no Heaven. Everytime you say “Europe has more experience with and better responses to terrorism” they hear “The US isn’t #1″, which is basically like telling them your dad could beat up their dad. This is a religious discussion for them, and no amount of sense is going to make any difference to their thinking, because they’ve already decided any disagreement with them is the rankest heresy. “The 2nd Amendment Solves Everything” is their catechism, not their argument.

Let me shed some light on gun culture in the US, especially re that last reblog, and in the hope that we can have harder hitting and more effective arguments than “you think it makes you look real cool, don’t you?”.  Jesus, big trucks, Budweiser, and John Wayne had nothing to do with my father’s life, but he was as much of a gun nut as they come.  As a person raised by a pro-gun person, who was given a gun (albeit an air gun) for their seventh birthday.  I was pro-gun as a teenager because that’s how I had been raised.  I’m not now.

There’s a bunch of reasons people want guns:

1.  Their hobby.  Some people think that driving out to the middle of nowhere and setting up some targets and plonking away at them for hours is an enjoyable way to spend the afternoon.  And I mean, they’re not wrong.  It’s satisfying to hit things and see them fall over.  It’s satisfying to look at your target and see a cluster of shots and say “aha, my gun is off slightly to the right, let me see if I can get them all in the center this time”.  It’s a game of skill.  It’s focused and relaxing.  Other people legitimately use them for hunting.  There are actual real non-terrible reasons to like guns.

But that’s not the important one.  Sure if we make it harder to get guns some people will have a harder time practicing their hobbies.  But realistically that shouldn’t matter because the decrease in gun deaths is certainly worth it.  Here’s what’s important:

2.  Fear.  They are terrified that every strange person they meet alone on the street might rob them with a gun, that angry strangers in traffic will pull guns on them, that some place will get shot up while they are there.  My father used to talk about guns and they describe in detail about the time he had been mugged in Chicago, he told me this story every time, it was his worst nightmare that something like that would ever happen again.  They don’t think that the police will help them, because the police are paid by the government and they are used to thinking of the government as incompetent.  Not only that, but the government is the enemy, too.  The second amendment is, in their view, a provision to allow citizens to protect themselves from the government.  It’s crazy that one guy and his gun could actually stand in a firefight with the federal government, but this is what (some of them) think.  So in their view it’s just every man and his gun versus every other man and all their guns.  Anarchy.  And it’s self-reinforcing, because once you have a gun and are confident that you can use it, the solution to every problem becomes a gun.  Burglars might invade your house?  Security systems aren’t effective, keep guns around because the burglars will definitely invade while you are home.  (His house did get burglarized, while he was away.  Ironically they stole his guns.)  Pigeons are roosting in the doorless garage and crapping on your car?  Shoot em.  Etc.  It’s not that people want to look cool, or that they’re trying to be heroes, or that they want to be John Wayne or whatever.  They’re afraid and the gun is the only thing that makes them feel safe.  I honestly think we should be spending as much time trying to remedy this fear as we spend trying to put restrictions on guns, because just doing one and not the other will only result in a lot of illegal gun trade.

Pen and Teller actually did a Bullshit episode on gun control, in which they conclude that gun control is Bullshit.  They are edgy libertarians and everything, but the arguments they give in favor of carrying guns around everywhere strike me as representative of those of most gun owners I’ve known, so it might be worth a watch.

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“Seeing this upsets me, so it must be wrong and the people doing it must be bad and evil….otherwise I wouldn’t be upset, would I?“

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ussenterpeen:

teamtonystank:

Example of the clash between people’s external reads on Tony vs. The Truth.

(huge thank you to @knightinironarmor for inspiring this gifset)

This is very important to note. The audience (assuming they’ve seen the majority of MCU movies), have seen Tony make mistakes, harbor extreme guilt and anxiety over them, and try his best to correct them, all while assuring those around him that he’s totally fine through use of humor and a deceptively inflated ego. Watching Civil War, we sympathize with this man who is clearly struggling with PTSD and is trying to do what is right in order to atone for what he had a part in doing.

However, people like Sam, Scott, and even Clint and Steve, have only seen a small fraction of what Tony has gone through. Clint, Steve, and the rest of the Avengers were with him in Avengers and AoU, but neither of them saw him deal with the aftermath of New York. In fact, it’s made quite clear that everyone parted ways after Avengers (the exception being Bruce, but the whole ‘falling asleep, not-that-kind-of-doctor’ thing deserves a separate post). Steve went to work for SHIELD, Clint went (presumably) to his family and SHIELD, and so on and so forth. None of these people knew Tony wasn’t sleeping, or was getting anxiety attacks, or was burdened with the horrible guilt of almost letting Pepper die in IM3. 

In AoU, the band’s back together, but it’s clear their mission is wiping out HYDRA. And, as Zemo notes in CW, decrypting these top secret HYDRA locations probably took a decent chunk of time, on top of generally dealing with the government and Steve and Sam’s search for Bucky. I doubt they were working on taking down HYDRA for more than half a year by the time we catch up with them in AoU. 

I know a lot of people enjoy the idea of everyone hanging out and being besties in Avengers’ tower, but that line of thinking completely ignores how autonomous these near strangers are, before the Avengers and after. Of course you have some of them who are close (Tony-Rhodey, Steve-Sam, Nat-Clint, Tony-Bruce [arguably]), but the only time they’re really ever shown to be relaxing is at the party scene in AoU, which I don’t think happens every day. Even then, they spend most of the party apart, presumably only coming back together at the end because most of them probably live there temporarily between HYDRA castle-storming missions. I sincerely doubt Tony’s PTSD, anxiety, and other traumas came up in casual conversation around the tower; this is the guy who couldn’t even tell the love of his life that he was slowly dying and even led her to believe he was totally ignorant of her feelings until he found a way to cure himself. You think he’s confiding in Steve Rogers, national hero, idol of his father’s, and ‘perfect teeth-having nice guy’? Hell no.

Hell, at the end of AoU, Tony retreats even further from the group – giving up his suits, his role as an active Avenger, and generally any kind of responsibility to the group besides funding. In CW, Tony has to sum up what’s happened to him in the past year to Steve, who has no idea he and Pepper are on the rocks (and even thought they were pregnant). This small talk demonstrates how close they aren’t, really, and should show that Steve does not truly empathize with Tony’s need to step back and hand the reigns over to someone who can hold them accountable. I’ve written a whole other meta on why Steve is right in his own way not to trust Ross or the Accords; in short, he feels he can best atone for his personal guilt and regret by doing what is good for the many, if on his own terms and illegally, instead of putting himself in a situation where he might be prohibited from doing so entirely (’what if there’s somewhere they need to go, and they don’t let us?’).

So when we look at the scene above with Sam – who BARELY knows Tony (it can be assumed he only met him sometime shortly before AoU since he’s been searching nonstop for Bucky and is not invited to handle Avengers business until the very end of the movie) – we have to remember that he knows Tony almost the least of everyone. All he knows of Tony prior to CW is what Tony’s put on display to the public: his flashy cars/gadgets/expo, his I do what I want attitude (IM2 specifically), and this disarming, seemingly arrogant personality that sets almost everyone on edge. As the audience, we can’t yell at Sam and co. and say “how dare you not sympathize with everything he’s been through!!” when Tony has only just started letting the closest people in his life to him know when something’s wrong in IM3. 

Sam is a good counselor and, yeah, you can argue that maybe he could make an educated guess that Tony’s ego is largely for show, but he’s just been beat down, thrown in prison, and is now face to face with the man who caused the latter to happen. Even if he knew to pull his punches – which he does eventually, when he trusts Tony with Steve’s location and to go as a friend – he’s not exactly in the best mood to. He’s on the defensive and unsure as to Tony’s motive considering they were in a mutual disagreement until he took the A out of the Raft’s AV.

ANYWAY, I just hate this Tony vs Steve, right vs wrong rhetoric, and I think it’s important to remember that the point of IM1-3 was to make this very complicated character sympathetic to the audience, while the rest of the Avengers weren’t given the luxury of watching his development and growth over eight years. I didn’t read the source link, so maybe what I’ve written is redundant, but it’s something I’ve thought about A LOT and just wanted to get off my chest.

@ussenterpeen First of all: thank you SO MUCH for putting something constructive on my post and not just a bunch of wank/character hate. It’s incredibly refreshing, and you make a lot of genuinely good points. 🙂

I’d also like to reblog your commentary (even though I’m tired of reblogging this gifset, honestly), because I think “Sam/the others genuinely don’t know everything about Tony” is a point that needs to be reiterated. I put a simple version of that sentiment on my original tags for this gifset, but I’ve gone through tag reader and have seen a lot of vitriol aimed at Sam for this scene and it was not intention of this post!

And speaking of, I feel it important to tell you that my intention with this post was not perpetuation of “Tony vs Steve”/ “Team Iron Man vs Team Cap” (though I have reblogged many such posts, I’ll admit). This gifset intends to remind us, the fandom, that Tony Stark is more than an egomaniac who has motives rooted only in selfishness and a lack of self-awareness (as many marvel fans claim). The source link also never intended to assume that characters are intentionally mischaracterizing/misunderstanding Tony. It merely pointed out the ways that they do, (citing Civil War-specific examples ranging from MIT ass-kissers to the other Avengers). Accordingly, I meant this post to be an extension of my empathy for Tony Stark. It’s meant to be like “look: here is an example of how people both in and outside of the MCU don’t understand this character. These people either haven’t seen (the MCU characters) or have forgotten (the fandom) these instances that show he’s so different from what they claim. Isn’t that simultaneously tragic and fascinating?”

I’d also like to say, having read the meta you linked to, that I think it’s unfair to say people shouldn’t choose sides (even though these divisive discussions are tiresome). We can simultaneously 1) acknowledge the motivations of both Steve and Tony and 2) decide that we still consider one side to be more “right.” To use myself as an example: I know Steve was, like Tony, operating under compromised judgment and was just doing what he was right. However, I found Steve’s anti-Oversight position to have inherently dangerous implications (i.e. american militarized force ignoring sovereign borders and national laws to act solely based on their own judgment = SCARY AS HELL). I also found his particular mistakes harder to forgive than Tony’s for reasons outlined here and here. Ergo: I side with Tony. And I’m sure others have opposite reasoning (”I get where both are coming from, but I ultimately pick Team Cap because ______”) and it’s fair to let them make that choice.

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