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Free humans own weapons or at minimum aren’t barred from doing so, and can legally defend themselves from legitimate threats when civil authorities are unable or unwilling to intervene in the moment.

Culture is a different thing to discuss, sure, and glorifying violence is bad - which is what some of those videos do, though not all of them.

Still, we see countries like the Czech Republic where firearms may be carried concealed, nearly anywhere, with licensing on a shall-issue basis: there are relatively reasonable conditions not far from US-based shall-issue permit requirements (for the US states still even requiring a permit), as well, and CZ doesn’t seem to have issues.

Education about gun safety, and just general personal responsibility, used to be a thing in the US but the “education system” here fails us these days.




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