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You can have common sense gun control means without going full Australia.
Yes, we can.
The three pieces of "common sense" gun control that we need are:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes yes, we should use private messaging because you don't have self control to bother reading what you're replying to and throwing everything wildly off topic.
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.
My friend, no one was shittalking Australia.
Go get a half dozen dimmies and take a smoko.
I don't read their comment as critical of Australia. It's just that if you're establishing a scale of gun reform, Australia is at the extreme end. In the US, full Australia isn't a realistic goal.
Extreme end? You mean the fucking normal, everyday, global method of not letting psychos and kids have guns? Yeah, so extreme. Amercian's have the weirdest fetishes.
Lol Australia? Look at how many mass shootings Australia has vs you gun retards. Glad I can send my kids to school without fear of them being shot. Fucking gun nut spastic Americans, honestly. At least my kids won't get shot for no reason. Hurr durr I need a killing machine /s. Absolutely ridiculous logic. Do you even know what the word amendment means? Fuck me, why are you not allowed to build a nuke?
Yeah, fully aware that this is a US instance... please ratify my point and click the down arrow.
The people downvoting you might not be the gun fetishist you imagine, they might just not like the language you use.
It's not, it was created in the Netherlands.
We stopped saying "retard" a couple of decades ago, and depending on where you are in the world, "spastic" also isn't used anymore.
Ohhh I'm soooo sorry that my language offended some fuckheads that might go shoot a school up.
It's not that I am concerned that the "fuckheads" will be offended or hurt by your language. It'll be people like my sister-in-law with downs, who hear/see those words and she'll feel awful about herself for a few days.
Aussies will Aussie.
So will our kids, when they come home from school instead of being shot.
I'm on your side mate
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-automatic rifles are banned now.