No country is on USA’s level- we are a world leader. Pioneering the way. Yes some individuals make wrong decisions but at least we can make our own choices to speak and act how we want and learn from the consequences; we can overturn our governments in the courts if they violate our constitutional rights at this point- let’s keep it that way.

I was just talking about countries that forbid you to protect yourself (as a strong example of my point of our rights being taken away).

Illinois supreme Court , in this instance

Yeah but Russia, North Korea, China are all industrialized, see where they are? Government screws them daily… It’s about individual lives and freedoms. About me. And about you. More discernment to gun purchases are needed, if anything. To keep them away from nutsos

It’s just step one, they want to disarm us. This isn’t a romance novel

Sucks… everyone should be permitted to be armed. Why would you want to walk around not protecting yourself ? It’s a dog eat dog world, like it or not…

Any thoughts about uploading images straight to lemmy.world vs using these sites to host? Is either option vulnerable to takedowns?