# Pit thread for Martin\_Hyde {He has been BANNED}

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**Created:** [May 24, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-thread-for-martin-hyde-he-has-been-banned/965045 "2022-05-24T22:52:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-thread-for-martin-hyde-he-has-been-banned/965045/595 "2022-05-31T14:07:54Z")

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I see you are only interested in perpetuating intellectual dishonesty, good to note.

> [@Babale](#):
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> What you oppose is meaningful change to the laws and mindset that allow gun proliferation in this country.

That simply isn’t true. I can be found promoting reasonable gun restrictions, at least as far back as 2012 on these forums:

> [@27 dead, 18 children](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-dead-18-children/644050/372):
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> The biggest problem America has is it can’t discuss gun control de novo, and we already have an insane amount of guns inside the country. If we adopted a stricter licensing regime, focused more along what I consider “common sense” European lines like you find in the Scandinavian countries or etc, I think that’d be perfectly fine. I don’t have a problem with someone demonstrating competency to own a firearm anymore than I have a problem with them doing the same to drive a car. But the problem is…

Note that thread was for the Newtown shooting itself–I am significantly more pessimistic about the politics of passing gun laws now than I was then, I actually assumed in response to a bunch of dead grade school children we would have changed our laws at least around the edges. Considering not only did that not occur, but that largely the Republican party continued to win on this issue politically, I generally think Democrats should focus their efforts on more limited things for the time being simply out of political realism, but I don’t disagree with the actual ideas I posted back then, just the practicality of them.

I also was unaware back then that most of our gun laws right now are poorly enforced, which colors how effective I think such laws can be.

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