True, the rest of the modern world has moved on to sophisticated shit like truck attacks and throwing acid in people’s faces.

Spreading western cultural norms is imperialism.

Sure you are. Licensing isn’t a form of due process. Nobody has to pay exorbitant fees to access any of their other rights. As I said before. I’m not confortable making some rights solely the privilege of the rich.

Of course it is, but it isn’t just my right. It is the right for hundreds of millions of people. If you can curtail something without due process, it isn’t a right. It is a privilege. Nobody is pro gun violence. It is just the acceptable loss for living in a free society.

The constitution is just a long list of what the state can’t do to people without legal justification. There is no abstract right to life, just that the government won’t take your life without due process. It protects citizens from the state. If you want to use it to argue against police violence, you may have a case.…

This isn’t a loophole. Loopholes are accidental. This is the purposeful force of law, dumbass.

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.