• Flying Squid
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    94 months ago

    Looking forward to seeing what they’ll say about the cache full of guns they found in the attempted assassin’s house.

      • Flying Squid
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        64 months ago

        Don’t give them ideas. They’ll start calling for gun control, but only for people on the left.

        • dactylotheca
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          34 months ago

          Random musing related to US gun control, but at least from this particular rando Finn’s perspective the American mentality regarding guns is sometimes just really fucking puzzling. I mean yes I get the historical whoop-te-doo that led to things being how they are now and what the rationale is behind US gun culture & laws and so on, but even given the context it doesn’t make sense to me. It also seems like lots of Americans agree that things are… well, not optimal right now and would want tighter controls, but by all appearances gun control is such a political minefield that it seems to be hard to get things fixed, and I’ve understood that eg. Republicans have a real tendency of being really pro control when it comes to restricting the ability of “unwanted” people to own guns. And then there’s how the culture around guns plays into all this, of course.