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If you don't, no need to reply telling me you don't. I live in the woods with some critters. I live pretty far from neighbors/police so having a gun gives me peace of mind. I also hunt and consider myself a gun hobbiest. I enjoy shooting targets, cleaning/organizing, reloading and earning food with guns.

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[โ€“] Treczoks@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow. You gun nuts have way too much time at hand.

[โ€“] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not really, it probably took me under 30 minutes to look this up.

A personal insult to me also isn't an argument contrary to my claims about Switzerland, nor is it a defense of yours, so I will assume you admit you were incorrect in your claim about the country.

Furthermore, it's not even very good ad-hominem in that I never even claimed that firearms are a good thing. I only ever contested that Switzerland is cultured despite it's highly permissive gun laws, and cited sources showing that they do engage in a lot of firearm sport, and have personal access to firearms in refutation of your anecdote.

Since I never said anything about positive or negative effects of firearms themselves in this conversation, this means you have made an assumption about my personal point of view of firearms and are now using your own assumption as a counter argument to a topic we have not even discussed between ourselves at this juncture.

This is called a straw man fallacy.

To avoid that, it is best to stay on topic, in this case, whether or not firearms are accessible to the public for sport in Switzerland.

Please either point out where I made the statement that guns are good etc. to show why I am a "gun nut", or cite a source in reference to your claim about firearm accessibility in Switzerland if you want to support anything you have said thus far.

Otherwise, feel free to just not reply to me.