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ConservagameR on 12 June 2022
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sundin13 said:
ConservagameR said:

Pretty much. The more you have and more damage they can cause, the less trouble you tend to have overall. Combine them and you reduce even further. That doesn't mean no trouble whatsoever, even internally.

It wasn't connected to anything prior to the point about US citizens donating some guns to Ukraine. While Ukraine's past arsenal also made a point, the main point was how important defense is and why it's better to take it more seriously and go overboard than not. Which is part of the reason why the US is so well armed. Trying to find the perfect balance is obviously the best solution if you can find it and implement it, which is much easier said than done.

Not everyone requires the same level of defense. Some places like Canada or Australia don't arm themselves anywhere near the amount they could simply due to their geography and environment.

So...there's no point about guns and school shootings here? I mean, if you want to argue that there is value in nuclear weapons, there is some truth to that but this doesn't seem like the place. If you want to try to make an argument for arming the populace to reduce crime on the other hand, that is a pretty garbage argument although coincidentally this would be just the place to make it.

I wasn't the one who brought up the US having so many guns being a good thing and how they should give some to Ukraine, or another way to look at it would be that if the US wasn't so hardcore when it comes to defense that Ukraine would've been totally screwed. Nothing was said about this not being the place for a point like that, so I didn't see the problem with my reply.

I believe it was Cobretti2 who thought that this had a connection to more heavily arming the US population, which I don't recall saying anything about that. I did talk about the cops handling of the situation, as well as why there may be more mass shootings in the US, but that was it. I think you're mistaken.