This is what I was talking about way up thread about how we talk about guns in-community is flippant and inconsiderate. I want to be safe. Guns make me and a lot of other trans people unsafe and are well, well, well outside of something I can access financially and the violence in my life right now are not addressed by guns.

The biggest violence I'm experiencing right now is housing and food instability. I can't solve that by showing my gun to the SNAP clinic. Even the person in my life who physically harmed me the most in the past 12 months, that was my domestic partner. I'd be a fucking idiot to have shared a household with this asshole with a gun in the house.

Why are you centering guns here? Why are you saying "you" like it's a pre-assumed thing that I should have gun over pepper spray? I'm a trans, I know how to survive. Guns might be what works for you, but I think it's really flippant and inconsiderate that online (and literally only online) trans community centers gun violence as a means to survival of the long, long list of shit we need politically right now.

And, quiet part loud, I think all of this gesturing from the more aggressive gun people comes off as insecure (of course it's insecure, you own a gun) and over-compensating and conflates how guns are tied to our national identity with some sort of "fact" of reality. So people get so, so, so defensive over simple facts that fuckin pepper spray might be appropriate way to deescalate a situation.