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Do you reckon guns should be banned in the U.S.? (Please vote)
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You mean like no license required unless you use it on public property, license required to use on public property but you can get it at 16yo by passing an idiot test, can't buy a sports car (handgun) anywhere but from a dealer in your home state, etc?
It's a stupid analogy.
"automatic" weapons have been effectively banned (heavily regulated, registration required) since 1934 and production or importation of new automatic weapons has been banned since 1986.
If you mean "semi-auto", that's a broad category. Technically, even revolvers are semi-auto.
Lol, what?
It shouldn't be 16, but a test would be nice.
That sounds nice.
As long as you don't drive cars on public roads, you don't need a license.
Therefore, what he's saying is if you don't use your gun in public, you don't need a license.
I'm not familiar with USA laws, but here from where I am at, if you injury someone or cause material damage to other's proprieties while driving without having license, you are criminally responsible, If what you did was a crime anyway, the lack of license aggravate the said crime, not matter if it is on or off public roads. The fines change tho.
yes, other countries it's illegal to not have a license to drive, here it's a suggestion as long as you drive only on private roads
You don't need a license to own or drive a car, unless you take it on public roads.
I'm imagining a test where you are supervised while shooting a gun in a target range with a dummy. If you can fire ten rounds and not hit the instructor, yourself, or the dummy, then you pass.
You'll be happy to hear that automatic weapons were banned decades ago. It's technically possible to purchase privately owned weapons that were sold before the ban. But they are in the hands of collectors and no shootings have used one for some time even before the ban.
It's about to get longer.
"Military weapons", for a well regulated militia, even. How preposterous.
Don't get me wrong. I'd love it if militaries around the world banned militaries all around the world. But then again, that's how wars start. And the children!
Yep. Read US v Miller ... SCOTUS has already decided that "military weapons" such as would be normally issued to an infantryman is exactly what the 2nd Amendment protects/guarantees.
Well, if the "militia" sucks absolute balls then...
Also:
A militia is going to have to be an organization of unprofessional soldiers, not 60 year old Trump supporters who instinctively cock a rifle at the mention of a black person.
Militia and military suuuuck, but it's something we've been doing as long as we've had civilization.
When it comes to war, usually THEY ARE kids.
But we need to, y'know, reform them. Make actual militias that require licensing, don't just hand out a gun to everyone. Prove that the person you are giving a killing machine to can be trusted to use that killing machine.
Thought that was against the Geneva Conventions but ok.
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Veho:
It's not like they're complaining that their Slurpee is 99% ice or something, but if the cocktail calls for "shot of vodka, shot of vermouth, shot of gin, shot of Campari, three shots of juice, squirt of lemon" and ends up being a thimbleful of booze, that's a problem. -
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The Real Jdbye:
the funny thing is cocktails in norway are only allowed to have 1 20ml shot of booze -
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The Real Jdbye:
but you could buy as many shots of whisky (or anything else) as you want and ask for a glass of ice and pour them in
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Veho:
There was a comparison of the number of Ibuprofen poisonings before and after they limited the maximum dosage per box or per pill (i'll look that up). No limit on the number of boxes you can still buy as many as you want, so people argued it was pointless.
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Veho:
But the number of (accidental) poisonings dropped because drinking an entire package of ibuprofen pills went from "I need a new liver" to "I need a new box of Ibuprofen".
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Veho:
Here we have ketoprofen that used to be prescription-only because of the risk of toxic dosages, but then they halved the dose per pill and sell them in bottles of six pills apiece instead of twenty and it doesn't need a prescription any more. Yes you can buy more than one bottle but people simply don't.
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Psionic Roshambo:
Usually accidentally overdose of ibuprofen here is from people taking like cold medicine then ibuprofen for a headache and the combination is over what they need -
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