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Homicides went up in WA state. Interesting, I thought they had the strongest gun control measures in the nation.
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Jesus fucking Christ you people reach, don't you? Fuck me, guess the number 88 is now illegal.
OR, you could simply check OPs post history. See if there's some bullshit in there.
OR, and this is really gonna bake your noodle, you could answer the question or simply STFU.
Having done my my own research and scrolling through the profile I have determined... they're just some guy.
I'd guess CA for strictest, for sure the most useless. "You can't have a grip on your rifle. It must have a ludicrous 'fin'. It's safer."
Washington: "You can't have 'high capacity' magazines you killers!"
Yeah, but you're banning standard mags, what the gun was engineered to use. And swapping one is a 2-4 second chore, trivial. Only idiots buy high-capacity mags because they jam nonstop. (Which put a HUGE dent in the Aurora shooter's evening.) I'm all in on letting morons have jammy magazines.
"Weapons of WAR!"
So how come the military doesn't use high-capacity mags?
"Shut up shut up shut up! You just want more dead children!"
I'm just sayin', you're burning political capital on a non-issue. How about we fight for something like safe storage and the like? Or maybe teach children gun safety so they recognize they're not toys and, at worst, are able to identify when someone's being an idiot?
"NOOO! Prohibition works!"
Like with alcohol, abortion and drugs?
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Anyhow, that's how most of the conversation go amongst my liberal brethren. (The last part is where the inform me that I'm not really a liberal. I'll let someone else fill that bit in.)
I highly recommend everyone listen to Malcolm Gladwell's series he recently did on guns on the Revisionist History podcast. It lays out these points in crystal clarity.
Holy shit. You and I must be living the same life because it has literally been the same experience.
Its exhausting to a point.