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@ZingerLearns

Im not sure the geography has muchg an effect on how "extreme" it is, though it may suggest what "normal" is. Im not even sure the type of gun matters (though if its illegal that is kinda suggestive though).

I think what matters more is the why. If someone collects them as they would coins or stamps it isnt extreme no matter what you have, after all its resellable, perhaps at a profit.

Now if your collecting guns to start a war or raise an army against the government then yea, you are probably extreme.

@Gaythia

@Gaythia

What do we mean when we say "gun extremism"? I think many may disagree on what constitutes extreme in the first place

@ZingerLearns

@TheOldGuy generally the republicans are much easier on the wallet. So no surprise.

@TheOldGuy where is here? Frankly despite being center leaning left i have tk wonder if that isnt better than the infighting.

@ZingerLearns indeed, there is a lot of nuance to these numbers

@TheOldGuy This is true... its just sad the the number of crazies on the left are starting to look like its begining to match the ones on the right, and thats scary.

@TheOldGuy I wasnt refering to the politicians, i was refering to the adherents.

@ZingerLearns I also think the number of guns to civial count is a bad measure.. In the USA you have a few people with thousands of guns... I think a more meaingful measure is how many people own guns.

@TheOldGuy Yea.. honestly im not sure what side is worse anymore. I always used to lean left, and still do.. but both sides seem bat shit crazy right now and kinda hard to distinguish at the extremes.

@ZingerLearns The people with handguns on their hip at my work are **not** military. But yea the M16 are military related but keep in mind these are kids walking home who take the guns with them, they are off duty and alone just walking around with M16s.

Now to be fair im not against guns. I wouldnt mind every civilian walking around with an AR-15 either.. I'm just pointing out it is something you see constantly with civilians open-carrying in israel which is far more rare in USA.

@conradhackett Or the only country with good enough records.. Though wouldnt surprise me if true.

I will say i am exposed far more to guns in Israel than the US. People wear them in their belt at work like its nothing, kids walk down the treet with m16 on their backs... I see more guns in a day in Israel than I've seen in a lifetime in the USa.

@wislubb Thanks, you too!

@warkittens yes i have it at my home lab, and there is no nearby sink.. you can use a hand pump or an oil based pump. I use an oil based pump.

@cassolotl

IIt appears so as it used to render just fine in earlier versions. QOTO was the first instance to implement it outside of misskey and it used to render in earlier versions just fine.

@yassie_j

@cassolotl

Then you are on an instance that explicitly strips it from the toot.. It **used** to be quote toots showed up just fine on mastodon as a text link... But it seems gargron in typical fashion went out of his way to strip it out and cripple people using mastodon... shame.

@Viv

@cassolotl

Some software hides the list of people you tagged.. so yea maybe you were tagged and it just wanst shown. Friendica does that.

@Ash

@obi If you know what the other person practices, use that, if you dont, use what you practice... Or just pick randomly it doesnt matter, what matters is you are wishing them well.

@fiskfan1999 QOTO was I think the first non-misskey instance to implement it.. we have had it for many years despite being a mastodon fork.