https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany

Pretty much any party that called itself socialist or communist in Europe east of the iron curtain.

Of course Americans have never heard of those.

Haha, yes the real existing socialism in the German Democratic Republic was a shining beacon of democracy. /s

You are delusional.

Yes, the other door that leads to oppression, totalitarianism, single party rule, secret police, economic misery, etc. At least the flags are red or whatever.

He runs Mac OS Chess on it.

I don’t fully remember, but original DOOM came on one floppy, I think.

Edit. Looks like it was four floppies. Probably the shareware version fit on one.

Edit2: I’m just misremembering. Shareware Doom was 2.4 MB.

Edit3: there was also a one floppy version

Yes, easy gun availability makes gun crime more likely. If you think your victim might have a gun, you want to use a gun to rob them. Knives are very deadly weapons as well and very hard to regulate.

In many European countries it’s easier to get a gun illegally than legally.

Interesting idea

A valid concern.

A gun registry wouldn’t list if people are trans or not though. A list of trans people you would get through healthcare and insurance. Changes of a legal name is probably registered somewhere as well. So they would need to cross reference.

If they want to go after trans people individually, they would go for leaders and activists first. They are easily found on social media nowadays. Then go after organized groups.

An individual armed trans person is much less of a concern, than organized groups armed or not.

Very true. People have all kinds of stuff they don’t actually need, but just like having.

I’m not sure the number of guns someone owns makes a difference regarding public safety and gun crime.

I support stricter gun laws in the US, registered ownership, some kind of license, sales only through licenses dealers, restricted advertising, waiting times, safe storage requirements, etc. A lot of gun regulations in the US are not very effective and more symbolic. Bothering legal owners more doesn’t necessarily help with violent crimes using firearms.

Fundamentally the main reasons for gun crime are social and can improved without changing gun regulations.

Besides security professionals and sports shooters, hunters are a pretty big group of gun owners. If you live in the countryside and own some land, you might want a gun for pest control i.e. hunting.

I also think there’s a big difference between carrying and using a gun on your own property and carrying it in public. If you live somewhere far away from any police, having a means to self defense als has some merit.

Are you from Czechia? Australia of course.

Czechia and Austria are also worth putting on this chart.

Some people are collectors, but a lot of people just have some old guns around.

Also if guns are a hobby or interest of yours, you are likely to own several. Just like people who are into headphones, mechanical keyboards, vintage gaming consoles, bicycles, etc.

It makes a lot of sense to own more than one gun. For self defense you might own one shotgun, one handgun, and a smaller handgun for concealed carry. If you’re a hunter, you likely want two rifles in different calibers, a shotgun, and a hand gun. In addition to that you might have an old gun laying around or grandpa’s old hunting gun, a range toy, some historic gun you like for some reason. Sport target shooters will have a few different guns, depending on what disciplines they shoot. Then there are also more serious collectors who might have dozens or hundreds of different firearms.