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You can certainly buy the first 2, and is the third really a benefit to any civilised society? I say this as a gun owner

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Unequivocally yes.

It’s a benefit to a free society.

Because all of those (western) countries where you can’t buy an assault rifle are such despotic hell holes? It’s a benefit to no one except the manufacturers, the merchants and the people who patch the injured up. And as someone who patches the injured up, I’d prefer not to

WWII Europe had plenty of dictators, and will probably be a caliphate by the end of this century. I’ll keep my freedom and guns.

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