What’s stupid is, an assault rifle is a deadlier MELEE weapon than brass knuckles.
If you liberals get your way and take our guns, don’t think you won’t see school brass knuckle punching massacres!
And also “possession of an over .45-caliber firearm” although it did not specify what that was.
I think technically some flare guns are an over .45 caliber firearm depending on your definitions.
It isn’t just flare guns:
A 10-year-old boy in Wichita was critically injured when a gun handled by his father accidentally discharged. Other news reports said that the gun discharged while being placed in a gun safe.
I see no evidence where he has ever threatened Marjorie Taylor Greene…
Also, I think most paintball guns are .60+
.40, .43, .50, .62, and .68.
.68 is the most common and is considered the standard size of paintballs.
The thing is, it does make sense to ban brass knuckles, and that’s why across the developed world they are either outright illegal or legal with restrictions (like not being in possession of them in a public place).
But it just shows how the US would write laws today were it not for the 2nd amendment. “Do more weapons make everyone safer? Is it better to let everyone have brass knuckles because the bad guys will have them anyway?” No.
Yes, but what about pools?
What? Swimming pools?
Swimming pools aren’t the problem. Drowning pools are.
Oh I see.
Well firstly, swimming pools have functions like leisure and fitness. Yes guns can also have a leisure purpose: e.g. target-shooting, hunting, but that doesn’t apply as a reason for why someone should be allowed to walk around with a gun in a mall.
Secondly of course, there are restrictions on pools. Public pools have to have a lifeguard, limits on depth (and a minimum depth, for a pool with a diving board), chlorination guidelines etc. This probably varies state-to-state in the US, but that’s besides the point.
I hope you recognize I was being sarcastic with the whataboutism?
But, you have to admit that if someone unleashes a swimming pool in the middle of a crowded mall, there’s gonna be some casualties.
Oh I’m sorry for the whoosh in that case.
I’m a regular visitor on some Trumpist forums at the moment, and that kind of response is absolutely typical. In fact it genuinely would be one of the better arguments I’d say.
Sorry to hear that.
Unfortunately, I’m a resident in Trumplandia, so I hear it all.
How about dead pools?
You can have my swimming pool when you pry it from my cold, dead yard.
Much like Citizens United moved us the wrong way on a hugely important issue (ie, money in politics), today we have this:
Please don’t turn this into another gunnite rights thread: