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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Did and of them have as many guns per capita as the US and have an almost perverted obsession with guns and individual freedoms like the US?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The country that claims to be the foremost in space travel, science, math, medicine, research, sports, money and freedom, that has survived COVID, H1N1, Spanish flu, OC43 and cholera, one of the richest, most technologically advanced, populous and developed - can't work out a system to control deadly machinery on top of its systems for maintaining the entire populations tax, driving, citizenship, medical, judicial, work, abodes, transport, roads, waterways, sewers, water, garbage, education, public parks and telecommunications?

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those are all irrelevant to guns. None of them are similar problems.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you can see no connection at all between driving licensing and gun licensing?

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There is a connection, but also a major difference. Driving isn't a right provided by a constitutional amendment, it's a privilege.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And the constitution clearly calls for regulation, verbatim.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's the part that is argued because it is written in old English.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

Old English

Wel gereht here, ðe is neodþearf tō wærienne frēo rīce, þæt riht folces tō habbanne and beranne wǣpna, ne sceal bēon gebrocen.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Id guess people that participate in reality