• @[email protected]
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    43 months ago

    We already have the legal mechanism necessary to enact mandatory training.

    The militia is “the whole of the people”. Congress is empowered under Article I Section 8 parts 15 and 16 to “prescribe discipline” (read: “training standards”) for the militia. They don’t have the power to mandate training only to those people who choose to keep and bear arms, but they do have the power to mandate training for everyone.

    So, let’s have a high school, senior-year class on safe handling. More importantly, let’s have a class on the laws regulating the use of force, so everyone is aware of when we can use force against another, and when force may be used against us.

    • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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      33 months ago

      Careful there buddy, you’re getting dangerously close to preventing uneducated morons from buying semi-auto rifles to keep in their pickup trucks.

      • @iopq
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        23 months ago

        Semi-automatic just means you don’t need to reload between every shot, it doesn’t mean burst fire (that’s still considered automatic)

        • @Bgugi
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          23 months ago

          But what about fully semi automatic, huh?

        • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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          13 months ago

          Thank you for explaining to this former infantryman how military rifles work. 😂

          • @iopq
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            23 months ago

            What’s wrong with semi-automatic then?

            • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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              13 months ago

              Nothing. I just have a problem with uneducated morons owning them.