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>ran out of options

He'd have one more option to fight tyranny, if your government didn't disarm the populace.

Imagine being yanked out of your home country by a foreign power and their corporate overlords with the prospect of living the rest of your life in third-world prison conditions, for the crime of allegedly reducing their balance sheets from $550B per year to $545B per year.

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Our populace is pretty heavily armed, hunting is pretty ingrained in the national psyche. No one's arguing for getting rid of hunting rifles. Pistols and semiautomatics, things designed to kill people are illegal and most of us are quite happy with that, especially after we had a foreign terrorist kill 100 innocent people in a mosque.

That's nothing, we once had the entire British government attempt to kill us.

> things designed to kill people are illegal

Your government doesn't have guns?

terrorist do illegal things, including smuggling in guns.

not great to take away firepower from citizens while the terrorists have guns.

you end up waiting around for the police, which may or may not be prepared or even arrive on time.

The terrorist who shot 100 people in the mosque came to NZ because we used to allow semi-automatics, and his home country didn't, he bought them here, it's why we banned them - to make it harder for terrorists

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