(July 9, 2023 at 2:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(July 9, 2023 at 2:02 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: If I am not mistaken, Croatia doesn't allow people with a history of mental illness (like me) to have firearms.

Immaterial. If you cared about crime, you’d find a way - legal or not - to get a gun. Since you have a history of mental illness, you are - by your own admission - at high risk for being the victim of a violent crime. 

As we all know, you can’t be anti-crime unless you’re heavily armed.

Boru

And what if prisons really exist? If I get a gun by hiding my mental illness or if I get on the black market, there will be a high risk of me ending up in one.

Are you in doubt as to whether or not prisons exist?

(July 9, 2023 at 2:52 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Are you in doubt as to whether or not prisons exist?

Well, yes. I tried checking that by visiting the prison in Osijek at the time for visitors, back in October 11, 2020, and there was nobody there.

So, I concluded that prisons probably don't exist.

Do you even have hair on your pubes?

(July 9, 2023 at 2:51 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:

(July 9, 2023 at 2:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Immaterial. If you cared about crime, you’d find a way - legal or not - to get a gun. Since you have a history of mental illness, you are - by your own admission - at high risk for being the victim of a violent crime. 

As we all know, you can’t be anti-crime unless you’re heavily armed.

Boru

And what if prisons really exist? If I get a gun by hiding my mental illness or if I get on the black market, there will be a high risk of me ending up in one.

Prisons really do exist (personal experience), but I doubt the risk of you going to one is all that high. You can always use a diminished capacity defense.

Boru

(July 9, 2023 at 3:13 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Do you even have hair on your pubes?

Yes, since I was 12.

(July 9, 2023 at 3:05 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:

(July 9, 2023 at 2:52 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Are you in doubt as to whether or not prisons exist?

Well, yes. I tried checking that by visiting the prison in Osijek at the time for visitors, back in October 11, 2020, and there was nobody there.

So, I concluded that prisons probably don't exist.

Because there was nobody at a prison you concluded prisons don’t exist? That’s like going to a house, finding no one at home and concluding that houses don’t exist.

Boru

(July 9, 2023 at 3:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(July 9, 2023 at 2:51 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: And what if prisons really exist? If I get a gun by hiding my mental illness or if I get on the black market, there will be a high risk of me ending up in one.

Prisons really do exist (personal experience), but I doubt the risk of you going to one is all that high. You can always use a diminished capacity defense.

Boru

I am not saying breaking the law is always wrong, but I will not be breaking the law for no reason. Especially not committing such serious offences as possessing an illegal firearm. It's one thing to break the copyright law or to say illegal things, possessing an illegal firearm is something completely different.

(July 9, 2023 at 4:19 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(July 9, 2023 at 3:05 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, yes. I tried checking that by visiting the prison in Osijek at the time for visitors, back in October 11, 2020, and there was nobody there.

So, I concluded that prisons probably don't exist.

Because there was nobody at a prison you concluded prisons don’t exist? That’s like going to a house, finding no one at home and concluding that houses don’t exist.

Boru

I had two competing hypotheses: one is that prisons exist and the other is that prisons don'r exist. The observation that there was nobody at the prison in visitor time is more easily explained by the hypothesis that prisons don't exist.

(July 9, 2023 at 5:18 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:

(July 9, 2023 at 3:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Prisons really do exist (personal experience), but I doubt the risk of you going to one is all that high. You can always use a diminished capacity defense.

Boru

I am not saying breaking the law is always wrong, but I will not be breaking the law for no reason. Especially not committing such serious offences as possessing an illegal firearm. It's one thing to break the copyright law or to say illegal things, possessing an illegal firearm is something completely different.

But there IS a reason: you have said before that more guns make a society safer. Don't you think that, as a citizen of Croatia, it is your civic duty to help keep the country safe?

Boru