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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 12:25 pm
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(February 10, 2022 at 11:50 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Maybe he’s nicked a radio. Maybe he’s nicked 50 quid. Can’t see shooting him for that.’
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Pretty much. I know that I don't own anything I'd take a bullet or give a bullet for, personally. Even in the ridiulous goldilocks situation where you might have a good kill - I'd have to pack my kids and move. They can't come up playing on the floor they saw a man bleed out on. I love my guns, got a ton of em - but I think the whole defense angle isn't just a bad argument for gun ownership... it's a good argument for denying a person a rifle.
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 2:55 pm
(February 10, 2022 at 11:57 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (February 10, 2022 at 11:51 am)Jehanne Wrote: Not only that sometimes the police will show up and shoot someone, anyone, who is holding a gun! I should have listed that as being #5.
Amir Locke. Cops execute a no-knock warrant at the wrong flat. 22 year old kid sleeping on the sofa sits up holding his legally owned pistol and is shot dead.
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That' s less an indictment against gun ownership than one against no- knock warrants.
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 3:18 pm
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I think we do have to decide between castle doctrine ideologies that lead to arguments for gun ownership as self defense, and no knock warrants. If we choose castle doctrine, we're telling cops that if they execute a no knock warrant they themselves can be executed like any random black kid snooping around a mailbox...and if we say nah, we're gonna go with no knock warrants, the implication there is that your gun ownership is likely to get you killed by the authorities.
Seems a bit infringey, doesn't it?
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 3:21 pm
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(February 10, 2022 at 2:55 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: (February 10, 2022 at 11:57 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Amir Locke. Cops execute a no-knock warrant at the wrong flat. 22 year old kid sleeping on the sofa sits up holding his legally owned pistol and is shot dead.
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That' s less an indictment against gun ownership than one against no- knock warrants.
I wasn’t indicting gun ownership, or even trying to do so.
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 4:35 pm
(February 10, 2022 at 3:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (February 10, 2022 at 2:55 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: That' s less an indictment against gun ownership than one against no- knock warrants.
I wasn’t indicting gun ownership, or even trying to do so.
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Juat clarifying. Some might think you were.
There should be severe penalties against LE when they apply for a no knock.warrant and shit goes sideways.
Like the death penalty - no knocks should be infrequent and require good evidence for it' s need....
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 4:38 pm
(February 10, 2022 at 4:35 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: (February 10, 2022 at 3:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I wasn’t indicting gun ownership, or even trying to do so.
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Juat clarifying. Some might think you were.
There should be severe penalties against LE when they apply for a no knock.warrant and shit goes sideways.
Like the death penalty - no knocks should be infrequent and require good evidence for it' s need....
Just my 2 cents, am opposed to both, especially, the former.
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 4:41 pm
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(February 9, 2022 at 5:22 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: That consensus may be based on political bias, since ]social scientists tend to be very left-wing.
(My bold text) Why do you think this is?
I think that guns ought to be controlled. Ammunition, too . . .
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 5:09 pm
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(February 10, 2022 at 4:35 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: (February 10, 2022 at 3:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I wasn’t indicting gun ownership, or even trying to do so.
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Juat clarifying. Some might think you were.
There should be severe penalties against LE when they apply for a no knock.warrant and shit goes sideways.
Like the death penalty - no knocks should be infrequent and require good evidence for it' s need....
For further clarification, what I usually indict is gun culture. People owning guns isn’t the issue. Gun rights aren’t the issue. Gun control laws aren’t the issue. How people think about guns is.
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 5:12 pm
Define "gun culture".
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 5:50 pm
(February 10, 2022 at 5:12 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Define "gun culture".
The attitudes and behaviour of a society in which guns are used.
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