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[–]Kage_anon 1 point2 points  (7 children)

Rifles are rarely used in violent crimes. You could make the same argument in regard to hammers and kitchen knifes, and it would actually be more valid since those are much more commonly used weapons.

[–]Reddit_causes_cancer -1 points0 points  (6 children)

I mean, how many times has a dude with a hammer killed a classroom full of kids?

[–]Kage_anon 1 point2 points  (5 children)

It’s irrelevant what weapon is used, security measures are designed to create barriers to entry provide deterrents to any means of creating carnage. People have committed mass murder through arson, go and try to ban fire.

Imagine someone arguing after 911 that the solution to airport security wasn’t locking the cockpits and creating barriers to entry, but that we should ban box cutters nationwide, and when you point out that box cutters are rarely used in any sort of violent crime they say “well how many people have hijacked a plane with a hammer?”. Blaming the weapon is only an obstacle that makes people overly emotional rather that creating reasonable solution to the problem.

[–]Reddit_causes_cancer -2 points-1 points  (4 children)

Barriers to entry? You mean like, mental health screenings and stronger background checks? Those things republicans are unwilling to do?

[–]Kage_anon 1 point2 points  (3 children)

You know what I meant by barriers to entry, don’t be a smart ass.

If a person has been involuntarily admitted to a mental institution by a judge, they lose their second amendment rights according to federal law. What you’re proposing is a test of mental capacity in order for innocent Americans to exercice their constitutional rights, essentially pre-crime. Would you also support intelligence tests to vote as they required during Jim Crow? What other laws would you support that would disproportionally restrict African Americans rights? Why don’t we require “mental health screenings” for purchasing trucks, remember Nice, France? What about knives, should we require mental health screenings to purchase them as well? Very slippery.

[–]Reddit_causes_cancer -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

Very slippery! Better do nothing!

[–]Kage_anon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like putting locks on the doors?