So your assertion is that someone woke up one day, found out booze and/or drugs were illegal, and said "you know, I had no interest in these substances before, but FUCK YEAH I WANT TO BREAK THE LAW TODAY!"
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So you are starting off with something that would only effect an almost statistically insignificant thing (mass shootings), even further restricting THAT by making it mass shootings that involve rifles, and doing something that would only effect even that marginally?
Again, if you want to start working on lowering homicides, that is pretty much the last place you should start. Yet this is your "damn good place to start"? Really?
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Not quite like that but yes. The allure of the forbidden is a major contributor to the increased demand
Even though I deny both of those assertions, my response is "damn straight".
Because the cost to society is zero.
But people's desire not to break the law and go to jail has zero negative effect on demand, right?
Fuck, can you tag in one of your buddies or something? You're really bad at this.
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I deployed three times as an 0311 in the Marine Corps. I think I have a pretty clear understanding of what ends engagements. You seem to think that the only time to stop a threat is when they're reloading.
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Have you seen our prison population these days? Do you know what constitutes the majority of it?
By the way, when some European countries actually decriminalized drugs, the usage and fatalities actually started to go down
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"...but every time you force someone who's under stress to have to fiddle with their weapon in order to keep killing, that's an opportunity for the situation to end somehow."
You're right, you said pretty much nothing. "...to end somehow."
You're right, you said pretty much nothing. "...to end somehow."
I'm not disdainful of it at all. Can you quote me the part of the Bill of Rights that specifically protects your right to have 100 round magazines?
It could end a variety of ways. Cops showing up and taking the guy out. Someone grabbing the gun away from them. Nutjob finally realizing "hey, what I'm doing is pretty fucked up and I'm dead anyway, might as well eat a bullet now". Even possibly (oh my god, shock, Duppin positing a positive usage of a gun!) a civilian showing up with a gun and taking a shot.
If you're so experienced in how engagements can be ended, why do I have to explain the possible scenarios to you?
Sure. Make sure you send the second one to the FCC, so they stop any restrictions on broadcasting.
(Incase you're not following, the point I'm making is that every single enumerated right in the Bill of Rights has SOME restrictions on it, because that is required for us to operate as a society. Any restriction should be examined carefully, but the pro-gun position seems to be that ANY restriction on the Second Amendment [but not the militia clause, that's icky and we don't like talking about that] is tantamount to eliminating it entirely)
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Yet you just said last page that a restriction on magazine size would have zero cost. Again, can you PLEASE try and go 2 pages without contradicting yourself?