Speech is the most functionally dangerous right we have. It is also the most important. What is an ideology if not speech? How did the Nazis spread their pathological views? Same with communists. Hell, same with US presidents who have lied for personal or political gain. Every single genocide has started with the…

Yeah, but we are talking about speech, not broadcasting rights. Anyone can speak for free. If you use your speech in a defamatory manner, you can get sued. If you use a gun in an illegal manner, you can go to jail. The analogous processes already exist. The reason it isn’t acceptable is because what you are describing…

No such place exists, but you can get a perfectly adequate gun for under $200 dollars. A perfectly adequate clearance investigation costs around $10,000. The former is pretty much attainable by anyone. The latter is not.

Blame Johnson’s Great Society. It was literally a plan to destroy the incentives of having a two parent household and instead incentivizing single motherhood amongst the poor, while appealing to people’s love of free shit. To quote Johnson around the time of the bill, “I’ll have those n*ggers voting democrat for 200…

I don’t find your casual approach to gifting away civil rights to the wealthy at all acceptable. Owning a “death machine” isn’t a privilege. It is a right. Available to all people of all socioeconomic statuses. Should we have a similar licensing process for freedom of expression? Ideas have been historically more…

How would that work in practice? You are basically describing the clearance process for a federal security clearance. Clearances costs thousands of dollars to investigate. I generally don’t prefer rights to be only afforded to those who can afford them, but I may be crazy like that. It may make sense to add the…

What kind of background check catches people for crimes they’ve never been charged or convicted of?

That isn’t even true. El Salvador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Columbia, South Africa, Brazil, Honduras, Jamaica, and trindidad and Tobago all have worse violent gun crime death. This isn’t even an exhaustive list. These are just the ones I know off the top of my head that also aren’t war zones. The stats on Venezuela are…

Lol. We’ve had a bunch of societies where people weren’t concerned about jobs or money. All that does is switch the concern to necessities that people in other cultures buy with money.

Ironically, Mother Theresa was a miserable human being. He is an order of magnitude better person than her.

Yep. The people who are like “it’s way too much and he probably won’t make it” are dumb. Because it is zero if he doesn’t and if he does, he’s made you rich.

The rational people are at home pursuing their lives, not going to a protest.

So your love interest is a real doll or a flesh light? That’s the only way you’d use similar adjectives.

Yep, the UK just substitutes gun violence for acid attacks and stabbings. I’d much rather be shot than having acid thrown in my face.

“Reducing the potential for large body counts many guns have is just as important.”

This is a bad take. The overlap between gun fetishists and FPS players isn’t substantial. Most gun nuts aren’t gamers. Most gamers aren’t gun nuts.

That’s why I just provided the inflation adjusted numbers in my original comment. It takes all that shit into account.

51k is the adjusted number dumbass. That’s why I said adjusted for inflation.

And cars are twice as fuel efficient as well as another 20% of the population moving to cities with access to public transport. You realize that inflation isn’t pegged to a single commodity, right?

Inequality is a useless metric. The only actual worry is whether or not the poor get richer than they previously were. That’s been the case with a few deviations since at least 1980 even adjusted for inflation.