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Cici 🍁🇨🇦 co-owner of Canada @cico12.bsky.social

How did a man with mental illness get a gun?

jul 29, 2025, 12:09 pm • 5 2

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Martijon @martijon.bsky.social

Why would you buy that weapon unless you were mentally ill? Why would you wear an AR-15 pin on your lapel unless you are owned by NRA and mentally ill?

jul 29, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Autistic Arab @autisticarab.bsky.social

Do you genuinely believe anyone who buys an AR-15 is mentally ill?

jul 29, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
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Martijon @martijon.bsky.social

I believe that feeling you need that weapon in the US is a form of mental illness. Certainly the worship of these killing machines is a sickness. So, yes.

jul 29, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Autistic Arab @autisticarab.bsky.social

There isn't anything wrong with anyone wanting a modern military rifle. Worship is another thing. But we have a right to own military small arms, and have since our founding.

jul 29, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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Martijon @martijon.bsky.social

And you have an economic interest in seeing that it remains so. You can make your money selling weapons that are not predominantly used for shooting school children and other people efficiently and rapidly. Founders did not foresee weapons firing 45 rounds a minute.

jul 29, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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Autistic Arab @autisticarab.bsky.social

I don't sell or make anything for the commercial market, and I don't work for a company that sells to the civilian market. Guns could be completely banned tomorrow with zero loopholes or anything and I would still have a job. Founders did foresee 45 rounds a minute, as they bought Chamber's gun.

jul 29, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Martijon @martijon.bsky.social

That’s good you have security. I try not to think in absolutist terms either way. But I look at Europe and Japan and then see the almost daily carnage we have in the US and I do not see the point of high capacity automatic weapons for civilians. What’s a Chamber’s gun, like a gatling gun?

jul 29, 2025, 7:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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Millybannilly @millybannilly.bsky.social

Yeah automatic firearms are heavily regulated. Also very expensive

jul 29, 2025, 7:21 pm • 0 0 • view