The shooter was 12 when Trump was first elected. archive

  • @[email protected]
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    134 months ago

    It was reported that the weapon was his father’s.

    Sometimes not even a safe will keep everything locked up. With enough time you can saw through most of the commercially available ones.

    • @[email protected]
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      64 months ago

      There are insurance/registration issues that can address that. Of course there endless possible hypotheticals. I’m personally in favor of some sort of “drivers license” equivalent for guns.

      But a 21 year old age limit almost certainly would have prevented Uvalde.

      • @[email protected]
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        114 months ago

        I am highly skeptical of registration because there is a 99.99% certainty that it will be the GOP to use it and strip away weapons from anyone who is not a registered Republican.

        • @[email protected]
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          54 months ago

          Aside from the rather extreme criticisms (genocide stuff), universal registration is a bad idea for everyone because these things keep getting hacked/leaked:

          If you are on the registry, it’s an invitation to descrimination or careful/skilled burglary.

          If you aren’t on the registry, it’s an invitation for violent crime with little/no resistance.

      • thermal_shock
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        44 months ago

        disagree. if people want to do something, terrible or not, they will find a way illegally.

        I’m going to go very basic here and say look at piracy.

        • @[email protected]
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          64 months ago

          Piracy bro lol there’s apples and oranges but that’s skateboards and dinosaurs.

          Even with your point being valid there’s tremendous value for society for making somethings as hard as possible.

    • @[email protected]
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      24 months ago

      With enough time you can saw through most of the commercially available ones.

      This is technically true but with the amount of time and effort it takes to get through a good portion of the safes I’ve seen, it would honestly be easier to go and steal one from some schmuck with a truck gun or whatever that’s insecurely, uhhh, secured.

    • Gumby
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      14 months ago

      Do we know in this case whether or not the gun was even kept in a safe?