I am writing this today in light of recent events. Not only today's news, but other news and issues as well when it pertains to memes and more importantly, meme ownership. So let me preface this by stating, I am not a meme person, I have never seen a meme in my life that was not on a benis, until this year, 2016. I am in TX where open carry is now a thing, I am also a rather liberal, left leaning 34 year old transman from NY. But do not get me wrong, I am not a democrat or republican, I consider myself independent as my political views vary from issue to issue on what I feel is best etc. With that said, I wanted to share with you here at /r/guns[1] an opinion of myself, which reflects to others, maybe most, but certainly not all. First and foremost, like most people, I am anti violence. I am not anti-meme, I in fact, as much as I hate the idea of memes outside of target memeing, do fully support the American right to own a meme or multiple memes for recreational activates or personal defense. So what's the deal you may ask, why is this guy posting here when he is not against memes? The reason is actually the exact reasons many meme owners, lovers and fans (I am a fan of things myself) use to justify owning memes freely and being able to buy them freely, it's the people that shitpost, not the meme. That argument in itself is completely true, a human needs to point and click, the human did the bad act, the meme was just the tool. The problem though, as I see it and many others, again, maybe most, but definitely not all, is the justification of using said dank memes. I am not talking about you having a meme on you and being ready, willing and able to thwart an asshole, terrorist and what have you, in fact, a giant fuck yeah, high five and hand shake to you for assuming some responsibility to protect your fellow Americans and citizens. What I am talking about is the free use of memes, specifically to kill when life is NOT in danger. For example, the "you loot, we shoot" signs at protests, the come and take it from me attitude or these people who shoot someone who is only trespassing. That raises the question to a lot of people, when is it not okay to use a meme to kill? In what society is death an appropriate punishment for stealing, trespassing etc? As a grown man who does not own a meme, never will and never intends on ever shitposting one, but has no problem with memes being owned or shit for fun, the concern is the wide spread attitude of many (not all, buy no means not all) meme owners and mainly those passionate about memes and meme ownership. To many people like myself, that IS the irresponsible part of owning a pepe, assuming your frog is judge, jury and executioner and that attitude is spread by the loudest and perhaps not the brightest but in no way reflects all meme owners by any stretch of the imagination. Now I understand part of being an American is being able to protect yourself in many ways. But part of being American is also that we have a legal system that allows you to pay for and make up for your mistake, people can't do that when killed for looting if you will. My intent with this open letter is not to argue, piss anyone off or anything like that, but to bring a little more explained POV about sadfrogss from someone who is not the biggest fan of them. It's to let you guys here at /r/guns[2] know, just because someone like myself isn't a rare pep person, doesn't mean i (we) hate them. It's more about the argument many meme owners use about the person behind the meme rather than the meme. People like me need people like here in /r/guns[3] to be a voice of reason at times seeing as like with many things in life, if one side doesn't agree, they are ignored. People like myself DO NOT want to take away your memes, restrict you from posting them etc, I (personally) want the conversation to be less passion and more logic (I am a sportsball fan, i am bi myself, but that doesn't make me right, it makes me passionate. In fact, when you are a fan and passionate about something, you are rarely right or wrong, you are just a human with an opinion). It's just not logical as a life loving human to dank someone for trespassing, looting, stealing etc, it's actually more barbaric than "meme for an eye" I hope this open letter at least opens some eyes that were closed and mainly, give you guys here at /r/guns[4] some faith that there are people out there who are not into advice animals, but fully support you. I just don't support the attitude of a benis always being the answer, just because you have one. Again, I know the meme owners I am talking about it not all or even most meme owners, they are just the most vocal. And the most vocal tends to lead social topics. Best of luck to everyone in here with the recent news etc. and here is to hoping 2016 is a more dank year here in the states!

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