@flexghost

I am going to continue my mission to get 2A removed, and a new A added that makes bodily autonomy a constitutional right.

#gunfreeliving
#freedomfrommassmurder
#bodilyautonomyforall
#transrights
#queergayrights
#Freedomtopracticejewishritual

@Edelruth How do you plan to enjoy gun-free living when those who break the law keep and bear them, anyway?

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@ihavenopeopleskills @flexghost

You just made the argument for destroying guns held outside the law. Thanks for that
Now we just need the laws.

@Edelruth We're circling back to my question: how do you plan to enjoy #gunfreeliving when those who are legally mandated to destroy their guns refuse to do so?

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@ihavenopeopleskills @flexghost

Apply the rule of law to the lawbreakers.

Shocking concept, I know.

#Ouroboros

@Edelruth All right. How will you catch the people who refuse to give up their firearms?

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@ihavenopeopleskills @flexghost

Astonishingly enough, we do have law enforcement personnel who actually believe in the rule of law. Also, who suffer at the hands of currently law-abiding (depending where you live), and in this scenario, future law-breaking gun owners.

To argue that gun control laws could never be enacted is to argue that there is nothing that can be done to prevent elementary school children from being blown apart.

Not. True.

@Edelruth How do you propose this approach to #gunfreeliving will be enforced? People who have guns illegally don't display them openly unless they're shooting someone.

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@ihavenopeopleskills

If they never, ever get used illegally, they are outside of this discussion.

They essentially do not exit.

@Edelruth Not sure I understand you. I understand that your position is that:

• gun control laws can be enacted (I don't disagree with you, by the way, observing other jurisdictions)
• by banning guns we will be rid of them and no one will use them to murder others

Is my understanding correct?

@ihavenopeopleskills

My position is that the US can only attain a reduction in gun deaths to levels in other countries, by radically changing law, and practices around guns.

Starting with the very obvious one, no one has a right to uncontrolled possession of a gun. Obviously. Axiomically.

Would it take a long time to drop American gun deaths to the level of let's say Finland?
Decades, maybe a century.

Are kindergartners worth that time and expenditure?
Yes, they are.

@ihavenopeopleskills

I have skin in this argument, unbloodied, but skin nonetheless.

So here's another position I stand behind:

America has a mass murdered schoolchild issue, because enough Americans vote for that.

And that is the actual problem. Americans cannot separate their romance with guns from the daily reality of their murdering use.

Daily.

God gods, daily.

@ihavenopeopleskills @flexghost

And they will continue to be out there for as long as people shrug, and say, "they are out there", and just give up.

They can be found, gathered up, and destroyed.

Half of America just fainted, but we absolutely should be coming for "your" guns. Those people who do not want to register them, pay a license to use them, prove they are skilled in handling them, you know, like for a car. No one is coming for anyone's car, because rationale safeguards are in place.

@ihavenopeopleskills @flexghost

Oh, I forgot: be insured to own one, and be accountable under law for all injuries caused by them. If it was justifiable defense, the insurance is to cover that.

@Edelruth

@flexghost

All laws do is cause impediments to honest people and bust the people whom the system actually finds and bothers to prosecute. The system doesn't bother to enforce the laws they already have.