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    285 months ago

    Now only the police and criminals will have guns, and law abiding citizens will be at the mercy of both.

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        95 months ago

        No, you can’t. Hawaii is not a shall-issue state. It’s pretty much impossible to get a permit there. Also, criminals won’t be getting permits so why should we make law abiding citizens get them.

        Make the bad thing illegal. Don’t make the tools or the intermediate steps illegal

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          35 months ago

          Fr, I’ve been looking into a tool (that is about to be banned in Canada) that lets you “hack” radio signals. It’s legal to buy and use on your own devices, I plan to use it on my car as after some research into my aftermarket lock I think I can. However if I use it to unlock someone else’s car and steal their stuff, that is illegal.

          Guns follows the same logic, yes, they can be used for crime; just like the f0 or the wifi pineapple, or the bashbunny, or rubberducky/badusb, but they can also be used for defense, like all those pentesting tools can legally be used for pentesting. It’s all in the person behind the item.

          • Liz
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            35 months ago

            This is the same crowd that will try to claim code is not a crime. Now, I agree with that statement, but at least I’m logically consistent and believe possession of a firearm should be perfectly legal.

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        95 months ago

        True, and I’m cool with that but people take issue with things like that because it puts a financial barrier around the ability to defend themselves. Which doesn’t really hold weight when the gun itself is a financial barrier lol

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          95 months ago

          The cost of complying with the dozens of legal hoops is often like 10-20x or more than the price of just a cheap pistol itself.

          Larger financial barriers just mean if you’re rich you can do what you want and if you’re not, you’re fucked, which often leads to people breaking these dumb laws and the cycle getting worse.

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            25 months ago

            Larger financial barriers just mean if you’re rich you can do what you want and if you’re not, you’re fucked,

            This is a very dumb mentality. Like making sure your car is safe and roadworthy costs money. But we don’t view people who drive with broken break lights or worn out tyres so sympathetically.

            • Liz
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              45 months ago

              A janky car is a danger to others on the road, not having the proper paperwork for your gun only puts yourself in legal danger.

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                25 months ago

                So you think people who haven’t practiced or gone through any gun safety course could only hurt themselves with a gun???

                • Liz
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                  35 months ago

                  Well an apples to apples comparison would be a rusty or dirty gun, which is way more likely to simply not work than it is to malfunction in a dangerous way. A rusty old car has multiple failure points that are dangerous to people who aren’t the driver.

                  As for user competence, I would love to see firearms training become a standard class option in high school, just like driving is now. I’d rather we had a society where neither were necessary, but we’re not anywhere close to that ideal on either front.

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          I think adding undue cost holds weight even though we live in a society currently where people are expecting compensation for their materials and time. One is making it more expensive specifically because “the poors shouldn’t have guns,” one is how much a physical item is sold for. In a post scarcity society where everything is always free; sure I agree, that argument would be silly. But this ain’t that, we ain’t never had that, and I’m 99% sure we never will have that.

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        And then the state has a convenient list of who to go after once the shit hits the fan at the end of the year.

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          15 months ago

          They already have multiple lists. But also they tend to add names ad hoc when that kind of thing starts happening.

      • @And009
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        Just like you wouldn’t be driving without a license, but what if criminals have cars?

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      155 months ago

      Have you seen, like, a single statistic about what uncontrolled gun distribution does to a country?

      It’s absolutely insane to have that many guns around you and somehow perceive that as some moral good instead of the very real danger it is.

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      115 months ago

      I can’t imagine how sad you life must be to waste your time trolling on lemmy. But I hope the angry replies you get help you with your attention issues.

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        115 months ago

        It’s not a waste of time to stand up for the truth and not a waste of time to stand up for the rights and principles you believe in.

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          145 months ago

          My dude, your post history is public. Anyone can go there and see you’re just a troll that says controversial shit to get a rise out of people. You can keep up the act if you want, but no one is buying it.

          Just go play roblox or something instead. It’s a better use of your time kid.

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            45 months ago

            Labeling everything you don’t agree with as controversial and trolling is just a lame attempt at limiting what can be considered acceptable discourse.

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              25 months ago

              Well it’s a good thing there’s plenty of things I disagree with that I call trolling then isn’t it. Just because I call YOU out on being a edgy troll, doesn’t mean I say the same about anything and everything.

              Its the typical right wing argument of “not EvErYoNe YoU dIsAgReE wItH are NaZis” when no one is doing that.

              The only people I call trolls are the blindingly obvious ones like yourself that a clearly saying whatever nonsense gets you rage-based engagement. And honestly the other possibility, that you are actually a real human being that fully believes the fucking r worded bullshit you type, is just too depressing to even consider it as a possibility, I refuse to believe anyone is that combination of braindead and pathetic.

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      That’s a concern people had when things transitioned outside the US.