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toomuchtodo08/19/20261 replyview on HN

> Maybe therapy is cheaper than an AR-15

¿Por qué no los dos? "We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."

> to hide the fact that 50% of the population cant read at a 6th grade level and feel dumb, scared and unimportant

If you must remain in the jurisdiction, manage your risk with the tools available to you. If you do not want to remain, leaving is an option. Do what is best for you. "It is what it is."


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Arkhaine_kupo08/19/2026

> ¿Por qué no los dos?

Bugdet and also because convincing idiots with guns to go see an expert who is going to trigger their fear of irrelevance is a quick way to get them to use that gun, either on the therapist or themselves.

> If you must remain in the jurisdiction, manage your risk with the tools available to you.

Great quote to support my initial point. The jurisdiction is the country and the tool availeble is the prohibition of guns.

Thus managing the provable increased risk of death against the unrealised potential of civilian uprising to fascism. Which came with claps and no shots