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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (21 children)

You can have common sense gun control means without going full Australia.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yes, we can.

    The three pieces of "common sense" gun control that we need are:

    1. 50-state reciprocity / National Concealed Carry licensure. It is obscene that a perfectly legal act performed by a person with no criminal record whatsoever, suddenly becomes an aggravated felony, simply by crossing a state line.

    2. Public Access to NICS. A private seller should be able to ask a buyer for proof of a background check, and be able to verify that proof with NICS. Private sales are legal in most states, but private sellers have no access to conduct a background check. This leaves us with the absurd scenario where a private seller can sell to anyone. So long as the buyer doesn't indicate they are a felon, the seller can't be prosecuted, because there is no reasonable way for them to know. Provide that reasonable way, and such sellers can be prosecuted.

    3. Remove silencers from the National Firearms Act. A prohibition on making guns quieter is a mandate for hearing damage.

    Three common sense gun control measures we could and should implement immediately. Three common sense gun control measures that are broadly rejected by centrists claiming to be progressive.

    The idiotic measures that Hillarycrats keep pushing - like Universal Background Checks, Assault Weapons Bans, Magazine Limits, Waiting Periods - are not "common sense". They are wildly unpopular attacks on mainstream gun owners.

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  • [+] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [+] -12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    If you're gonna try and kool-aid man into a conversation, at least pay attention to the conversation before you come in screaming unrelated nonsense.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    No, Chedder is talking about gun control

    Which you would have known, if you'd bother to read before kool-aid manning into the topic.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Yeah man, fuck our lack of school shootings and our radically reduced gun-related violence! We're the worst!

    Not that I'm saying that would work in America - Australia has safer (though not perfect) law enforcement.

    If I were American, I'd probably also fiercely advocate to keep my guns, too. When your own country can't guarantee safety, you have to.

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  • Or Canada. I dont know if you have been paying attention, but canada has been enacting some really, really strict laws in thr past few years. There are no more new handguns allowed to be sold, and almost all semi-automstic rifles are banned now.

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  • [+] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The people downvoting you might not be the gun fetishist you imagine, they might just not like the language you use.

    fully aware that this is a US instance

    It's not, it was created in the Netherlands.

    you gun retards
    spastic

    We stopped saying "retard" a couple of decades ago, and depending on where you are in the world, "spastic" also isn't used anymore.

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