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to repair the metaphor it’ll need to be “cars invented specifically to kill people”
they’re called tanks and they’re…frowned upon
BEEP BEEP IT’S A HOBBY
i mean…not all guns are designed to kill people. some are designed to kill animals. like, ya know. for food.
I’M JUST A HUMBLE SETTLER TRYNA PUT A FOX ON THE TABLE FOR MY WIFE AND KIDS
EXCEPT THAT ARGUMENT IS BULLSHIT
CARS ARE FUCKING REGULATED TO HELL AND BACK
THEY HAVE TO HAVE SEAT BELTS
YOU HAVE TO /WEAR/ THE SEAT BELTS
YOU HAVE TO TRAIN FOR A YEAR IN HOW TO USE ONE
YOU HAVE TO PASS A TEST TO PROVE YOU KNOW HOW TO USE ONE
IF YOU FUCK UP AND USE IT IRRESPONSIBLY, THERE ARE FINES AND YOUR LICENSE CAN BE REVOKED
THIS WHOLE FUCKING ARGUMENT IS BULLSHIT
Also, there are MORE DANGEROUS vehicles and those are EVEN MORE regulated!
You can’t drive your race car on the roads! You have to trailer them to and from race tracks
Cars DID KILL A FUCK TON OF PEOPLE, and honestly still do, so you know what we did?
We created a whole fucking government agency to regulate them (see: Department of Motor Vehicles), We created laws to govern their responsible use (it hasn’t ENDED ALL misuse but it sure as fuck decreased the commonality of accidents/deaths) We have police ESPECIALLY DEDICATED to patrolling and keeping an eye on people who use cars to make sure they’re using them correctly!
So no, maybe we didn’t outright BAN cars, BUT WE TOOK A RESPONSIBLE FUCKING STEP AND CREATED REGULATIONS AND LAWS AND STUDIED CAUSES OF MOTOR VEHICLE DEATHS
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Excellent discourse but that beep beep tank image is fucking killing me XD
Not to mention that we don’t have a lobby dedicated to dismantling any effort to regulate the sales of cars while citing a completely half-assed interpretation of a law written in a completely different time and in very different circumstances. (Seriously, the most reliable way to kill people with an old-timey gun was to bludgeon them to death with it. They are not the same thing as goddamned assault rifles.)
Also? In order to drive a car I have to be licensed, yes, but I also have to carry insurance just in case I do something negligent and harm someone else with my vehicle.
let’s see gun insurance become a thing. You wanna be a responsible gun owner the way I am a responsible driver?
Start paying hundreds of dollars a year in insurance.
(and then I get to watch the wwe smackdown between the gun lobby and the insurance industry *gets popcorn* cause I’m thinking after those companies have to pay out a few million for mass shootings…shit’s gonna get real)
also there are no restrictions on scientific research on how cars kill people
I HAVE SAID THIS SHIT FOR A LONG TIME. You can keep guns but we want them REGULATED.
The best that could be done is get rid of guns entirely. Countries that have no guns don’t have mass shootings and accidental children’s deaths by gunfire. And their societies don’t collapse bc “OH YOYRE TAKING AWAY PEOPELS MEANS OF DIFENSE!!!”, in fact they’re less violent and there’s less crime.
Btw are there really restrictions on scientific research on how guns kill people??? O.o
Yup. Can’t remember the specific legislation off the top of my head, but I’m pretty sure the CDC (I think it affects all federal agencies but it’d be the CDC that’d be doing the research) is banned from collecting *any* data on gun violence/deaths. Unsurprisingly, the legislation can be tied directly to the NRA.
knerdy-knitter:
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tresa-cho:
medie:
swingandswirl:
elementalisman:
dragonlioness:
nitrostreak:
benkling:
jewishzevran:
benkling:
benkling:
to repair the metaphor it’ll need to be “cars invented specifically to kill people”
they’re called tanks and they’re…frowned upon
BEEP BEEP IT’S A HOBBY
i mean…not all guns are designed to kill people. some are designed to kill animals. like, ya know. for food.
I’M JUST A HUMBLE SETTLER TRYNA PUT A FOX ON THE TABLE FOR MY WIFE AND KIDS
EXCEPT THAT ARGUMENT IS BULLSHIT
CARS ARE FUCKING REGULATED TO HELL AND BACK
THEY HAVE TO HAVE SEAT BELTS
YOU HAVE TO /WEAR/ THE SEAT BELTS
YOU HAVE TO TRAIN FOR A YEAR IN HOW TO USE ONE
YOU HAVE TO PASS A TEST TO PROVE YOU KNOW HOW TO USE ONE
IF YOU FUCK UP AND USE IT IRRESPONSIBLY, THERE ARE FINES AND YOUR LICENSE CAN BE REVOKED
THIS WHOLE FUCKING ARGUMENT IS BULLSHIT
Also, there are MORE DANGEROUS vehicles and those are EVEN MORE regulated!
You can’t drive your race car on the roads! You have to trailer them to and from race tracks
Cars DID KILL A FUCK TON OF PEOPLE, and honestly still do, so you know what we did?
We created a whole fucking government agency to regulate them (see: Department of Motor Vehicles), We created laws to govern their responsible use (it hasn’t ENDED ALL misuse but it sure as fuck decreased the commonality of accidents/deaths) We have police ESPECIALLY DEDICATED to patrolling and keeping an eye on people who use cars to make sure they’re using them correctly!
So no, maybe we didn’t outright BAN cars, BUT WE TOOK A RESPONSIBLE FUCKING STEP AND CREATED REGULATIONS AND LAWS AND STUDIED CAUSES OF MOTOR VEHICLE DEATHS
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Excellent discourse but that beep beep tank image is fucking killing me XD
Not to mention that we don’t have a lobby dedicated to dismantling any effort to regulate the sales of cars while citing a completely half-assed interpretation of a law written in a completely different time and in very different circumstances. (Seriously, the most reliable way to kill people with an old-timey gun was to bludgeon them to death with it. They are not the same thing as goddamned assault rifles.)
Also? In order to drive a car I have to be licensed, yes, but I also have to carry insurance just in case I do something negligent and harm someone else with my vehicle.
let’s see gun insurance become a thing. You wanna be a responsible gun owner the way I am a responsible driver?
Start paying hundreds of dollars a year in insurance.
(and then I get to watch the wwe smackdown between the gun lobby and the insurance industry *gets popcorn* cause I’m thinking after those companies have to pay out a few million for mass shootings…shit’s gonna get real)
also there are no restrictions on scientific research on how cars kill people
I HAVE SAID THIS SHIT FOR A LONG TIME. You can keep guns but we want them REGULATED.
The best that could be done is get rid of guns entirely. Countries that have no guns don’t have mass shootings and accidental children’s deaths by gunfire. And their societies don’t collapse bc “OH YOYRE TAKING AWAY PEOPELS MEANS OF DIFENSE!!!”, in fact they’re less violent and there’s less crime.
Btw are there really restrictions on scientific research on how guns kill people??? O.o
Yup. Can’t remember the specific legislation off the top of my head, but I’m pretty sure the CDC (I think it affects all federal agencies but it’d be the CDC that’d be doing the research) is banned from collecting *any* data on gun violence/deaths. Unsurprisingly, the legislation can be tied directly to the NRA.
