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Cake day: January 27th, 2025

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  • Not to incidentally glorify a bunch of aristocratic slave owners, but I think that’s exactly the sort of shortcut that the founders of the USA didn’t want us to be making, and I do agree with them on that matter. I’d rather have long, hard, good-faith conversations over how to safely and responsibly have as much freedom and individual autonomy as possible without infringing on the same for others, than give up access to specific objects and actions piecemeal in an ostensible attempt to curtail our lowest common denominators.



  • Well go on, show me the violent crime stats by country so that we can compare to semiauto long gun regs. It would also be nice if we could see before and after stats but I know that’s a tall ask and I’m not trying to be a sealion. Let’s just see violent crime stats, maybe just homicides per 1 million or similar. It sounds like you have access to this data.

    Don’t show me only the mass shooting stats. We’re not trying to reduce mass shootings, we’re trying to reduce violence. We’re not trying to avoid having to see guns, we’re trying to avoid having to see bloodshed. I know, I know. You want to point out that mass shootings are a vector of violence that can be remedied by removing guns. This is true, taking away rights does mute a lot of issues related to irresponsible management of those rights. But you’ve been brushing off my suggestions that there are more just and fair ways to address that vector for this entire conversation. So let’s table that specific response of yours for now, and let’s just see the violence stats before moving on.