Post #441,564
5/25/22 9:21:12 AM
5/25/22 9:21:12 AM
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yes it has, just not here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_MexicoBy the 1960s, the government modified Article 10 of the Constitution and enacted the Federal Law of Firearms and Explosives, limiting gun ownership to small-caliber handguns, heavily restricting the right to carry outside the homeplace and ending a cultural attachment to firearms by shutting down gun stores, outlawing the private sale of firearms, and closing down public shooting facilities. doesnt seem to be helping
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #441,565
5/25/22 9:49:55 AM
5/25/22 9:49:55 AM
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That's because we're flooding their economy with black market guns
Ceterum autem censeo pars Republican esse delendam.
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Post #441,566
5/25/22 9:58:19 AM
5/25/22 9:58:19 AM
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so they still use guns illegally? why do you think that will stop gun violence here?
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #441,567
5/25/22 10:44:44 AM
5/25/22 10:44:44 AM
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Stopping the supply is the first step.
The problem is people think if you don't instantly succeed, then "nothing can be done." Cut off the supply, the remaining guns will slowly deteriorate over time. Sure, some people will actively maintain their guns, but the vast majority of 2nd amendment fellators are fucking idiots who will let their guns rust in place.
Ceterum autem censeo pars Republican esse delendam.
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Post #441,570
5/25/22 6:53:12 PM
5/25/22 6:53:12 PM
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Because THEY aren't flooding YOUR market with illegal guns?
Not every nation is as shitty in every respect as you apparently assume they must be just because you are.
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Post #441,573
5/25/22 9:48:48 PM
5/25/22 9:48:48 PM
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it isn't always anglo's shipping the guns south
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #441,577
5/26/22 1:17:36 AM
5/26/22 1:17:36 AM
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It's always Americans though, right?
Or do you need a bigger wall?
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Post #441,579
5/26/22 9:20:00 AM
5/26/22 9:20:00 AM
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walls don't stop tractor trailers
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #441,580
5/26/22 10:01:17 AM
5/26/22 10:01:17 AM
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So now you're just flailing about.
Hey, somebody somewhere is eventually going to build a nuke, so why bother doing anything to stop handguns?
Ceterum autem censeo pars Republican esse delendam.
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Post #441,568
5/25/22 6:47:35 PM
5/25/22 6:54:53 PM
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He was talking about over there, not anywhere else. There, it hasn't.
And most other places where it has been tried, it has worked. I thought you'd be somewhat familiar with, for instance, Airstrip One (aka Great Britain)?
If you could try to excise that fucking defend-all-the-US-shit-even-when-you-should-know-better reflex from your spinal cord, that would be a nice thing. It's carcinogenic, you know: Gives you turning-into-a-reflexive-liar cancer.
But maybe it's too late for you already.
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Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking EverythingMail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi

Edited by CRConrad
May 25, 2022, 06:54:53 PM EDT
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Post #441,572
5/25/22 9:47:40 PM
5/25/22 9:47:54 PM
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I get that, was pointing out one of many places where it hasn't worked
we share somewhat of a language with the UK but the cultural differences are large. We are a different place. We cant even get people to wear masks in a pandemic how in the hell are you going to take their guns away?
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman

Edited by boxley
May 25, 2022, 09:47:54 PM EDT
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Post #441,574
5/25/22 9:59:22 PM
5/25/22 9:59:22 PM
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How did we get people to wear seat belts or stop smoking in offices?
We changed the rules and the laws.
It takes time. But that's what's necessary.
Cheers, Scott.
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Post #441,575
5/25/22 10:25:06 PM
5/25/22 10:25:06 PM
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might work but turning off the internet would work faster
limit the echo chambers for the lost
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #441,576
5/26/22 1:16:59 AM
5/26/22 1:16:59 AM
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Well, there's obviously nothing to be done.
2A rules! and if some schoolchildren must periodically die, then so be it. It's terrible, but thoughts and prayers.
If we can't do everything, then there's clearly no point doing anything.
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Post #441,581
5/26/22 10:03:52 AM
5/26/22 10:06:46 AM
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In 2018, one out of five agreed with you
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/27/one-in-five-americans-want-the-second-amendment-to-be-repealed-national-survey-finds/Maybe you got 100% increase in the last 4 years. That's an incredibly high number. But it's easy for the math to work. Say maybe you have two in five. Without that repeal then the states that want to be a free-for-all gun-wise will be. Sure, we might get incremental things like universal background checks. But only when a professional sells a gun. Unless there is a federal gun registration law, there will never be an incentive for an individual buyer/seller pair to do a background check. And a registration law will never happen because that's the starting of creating the list to take away the guns. Whether or not that taking away the guns is the goal of the people making these laws doesn't matter. The people with the guns are terrified of the authorities coming and taking them. The starting point is registering them to make that possible. It is illegal at the federal level to create a federal registration list. Illegal. It is actually against the law to make a law to force a felon to register his illegal gun because that would be self-incrimination and you can't force a citizen to incriminate themselves. A drug dealer could pull the same logic with tax stamps, but since the drugs themselves are illegal to start off with, I guess no one ever thought it was worth taking that to the supreme Court. I don't see Congress ever changing that.

Edited by crazy
May 26, 2022, 10:06:46 AM EDT
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