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[–] [email protected] 249 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

You might be wondering why this information isn't public already. Republicans passed a law to keep this information private. Yes, they're protecting the identity of criminals selling guns to cartels.

Fucking vote

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's kept private because it would reveal most the guns passed through the government before getting to the cartels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

If that is the case it's still a bad law that we should work on repealing....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Last time I made a comment about US guns being sold to cartels I got down voted hard. A bunch of people telling me they would never buy a semi automatic when they have machine guns.

Some stuff just seems like it's designed for cartels. Like their favorite handgun: El Presidente in 38 super

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But I was told to be angry at the brown people

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I'm sure they'll find the darkest person in the c-suite to use as a scapegoat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I'm voting to stop elites from disarming the proletariat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Why would they bother to disarm you? They make billions of dollars a year selling you guns and you're no threat to them at all, physically or politically.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I suggest helping implement Approval Voting and then Sequential Proportional Approval Voting so we can ditch the two party system and have more than one party that supports citizens protecting themselves without having to paradoxically supporting a bunch of policies that target citizens for harmless behavior.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

You mean against the "take the guns first" and "blue lives matter" party, right? You're against authoritarians being able to take guns and being able to freely murder citizens who did nothing other than possess a firearm, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

so Republican, got it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ok but what if the proletariat are stupid and have bad taste?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Then they shouldn't get to vote either.

Edit: Hmm seems like people only like gatekeeping some rights. Interesting. Personally I think if stupid people deserve one right, they deserve the rest of them too, unless they prove themselves to be a danger to society of course which also applies to "the intelligent."

And while we're at it, what is your metric for stupid, not college graduates? Only engineers? "Only people who can spell, (in english)" and so fuck ESL people? Stupid is ~~as stupid does~~ frankly rather subjective, someone who you consider "stupid" for having bad grammar may be a math wizard, better than you, and you never knew, who then is stupid? Both? Neither? "Stupidity" is not a good enough metric to deny anyone any rights. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.