And I was telling you not to do that. Eye for an eye is a terrible way of dishing out advise.
For all I know you were really getting into it because you felt you ware 'protecting society' by telling other people to 'suck it up' and not wear guns, or protesting - demanding their version of 'justice', getting into a mindspace, where you were literally saving lives, by afflicting that amount of hurt you felt to others in return.
Let the cycle continue, and we have a vendetta based society in no time..
(Hint: People protesting is there for them to vent that hate. Wearing guns while doing it is far from optimal or needed, but open carrying laws deal with that. Telling people that feel that driven about this cause to suck it up still is a bad Idea and yes - I'm being overly insistent on this, just to prove a point.
Not in principal. Emotionally I can understand your point. I'd be even inclined to let it slide, if I'd have read beforehand what you were addressing.
But connect some dots here. Figure out how society works..
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(If people are in those large ingroups chanting slogans and stuff, they feel larger, 'as one', being heard... the chances of those people making use of their guns is probably smaller (if you dont add heat, so they might become a mob), than if you have them somewehere in isolation 'sucking it up'. But no, I dont want to eat my words, or 'test that scenario' - here I'm just smug for no reason..
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