• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I feel uneasy looking at our police openly carrying guns. I don’t know how Americans look at the average Joe and say, “I trust he’s going to keep that in its holster unlike the one who didn’t two days ago.” 🥴

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      We typically don’t. Someone exercising open carry in public (especially in a non-rural town/city) are generally viewed as a cosplaytriot who has totally confused being a prepared badass with being a paranoid dickhead.

      They may argue this, but that’s the general attitude.

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    2 months ago

    That Bruen case was absolute nonsense. They argued that if no regulations on guns existed in a certain arbitrary time period, that it is unconstitutional to ever have a gun regulation. And then they got the history totally wrong. There were plenty examples of regulations on stuff like open carry. So they got the facts totally wrong!

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    2 months ago

    California should just change the population from 200k to 100k and pass the law again. Keep doing it and appeal. If trump can jam up the courts with bullshit the state can too.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    At least if they’re open carrying, you know who to avoid and keep an eye on? Also, they can be denied service at businesses, and should be.

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    2 months ago

    Fuck this, fuck all of this. I grew up with guns as a kid, and this is just nonsense. I don’t own guns as an adult, and none of this makes sense. The United States had more guns per capita than any other nation, and we have more mass shootings than any other nation. In this case, causation is correlation.