• kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 hours ago

    If you use a gun to defend yourself the alternative if you dont have the gun is generally assumed to be rape or death or both. What happens after is another question, but you have a right to obtain and carry a gun to use it to protect yourself.

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      13 hours ago

      Well trans women don’t have the luxury of casually dismissing what comes after. Again, trans people do not actually have 2nd amendment rights. In practice it is not legal for us to use firearms in self defense.

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        13 hours ago

        I’m not casually dismissing what comes after, I’m saying it’s still better than the alternative. Also for the record, I am a trans woman who has guns.

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          13 hours ago

          I get what you’re saying, and you can make your own decisions. This is a personal thing that people need to balance their own shitty options. But for me at least, I would rather be dead than spend years in a rape dungeon.