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   George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 03:00:05 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

   Call me old-fashioned, but you should be able to ring a doorbell, get in the wrong car in a parking lot, or drive down the wrong driveway without getting shot at, injured or killed.

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     Piousunyn (piousunyn@universeodon.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 09:32:38 JST Piousunyn

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     @georgetakei

     The driveway shooting only required a gate? The doorbell shooting only required a ring door bell? The wrong car door opening only required a door locked? WTF is wrong with people and their fetish for guns?

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     Paul_IPv6 (paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 14:59:04 JST Paul_IPv6

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     @Cleopatra @georgetakei

     arms dealers always sell to both sides. they care about profits, not deaths.

     the NRA is a gun/arms manufacturer lobby group, not a gun enthusiast group.

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     cleopatra@c.im's status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 14:59:05 JST Cleopatra

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     @georgetakei
     Gotta love how the NRA is trying to doubledip:
     towards white folks: 'buy a gun to protect yourself from scary black people'
     towards black people: 'see all those white people buying guns? better buy a gun yourself to hold them off'

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     Vote Blue to Save America (janeimber@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 15:02:30 JST Vote Blue to Save America

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     @georgetakei
     A man started to get into my car in a parking lot. Startled, I said, "Hey!" He said "Oh," and withdrew. Nobody got shot. Weird. #GunControlNow

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     Catelli (catelli@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 15:02:56 JST Catelli

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     @georgetakei I always said, "A society that has to arm itself to protect against the rest of society is not a society worth living in."

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 15:04:09 JST clacke

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     thoughts, prayers, blame immigrants
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     Peter M 🎯 (pjotrovics@mastodon.nl)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 15:04:10 JST Peter M 🎯

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     @georgetakei
     So what is USA doing about that?

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     Jamie (arborealtechie@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 15:04:46 JST Jamie

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     @georgetakei When I was 18 I went to the station to collect my mother. My friend went to ask what time the train was due and before he came back a similar car stopped next to me. He got in it, looked at the driver, they both did a double-take and he got back out again. No guns were fired and, as this is the UK, it was unlikely anyone at the car park even owned one. I'm not visiting the USA - it's scary!

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     tanweerdar (tanweerdar@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 15:06:10 JST tanweerdar

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     @georgetakei

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 15:07:10 JST clacke

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     • Hotmatsutaro
     @Hotmatsutaro the other countries
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     Hotmatsutaro (hotmatsutaro@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 15:07:11 JST Hotmatsutaro

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     @georgetakei In what country do you live without that risk?

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     Deesaroo68 (deesaroot@universeodon.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 15:08:35 JST Deesaroo68

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     @georgetakei i once got into a car who i thought was my friends(she owned a car rental using a dif car all the time) i was arrested and thrown in jail for 5 days, accused of stealing, had nothing on me, and did community service 100 hours. I am poor and indigenous. My accuser was a previous mayor. Sh*t happens.

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     LAF and LOVE (revlindsay@mstdn.plus)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 15:08:46 JST LAF and LOVE

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     @georgetakei In a typical Florida grocery store parking lot, there are now hundreds of 80+ seniors wandering the lot looking for their cars terrified of getting shot if they make an error. ??????

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     Sam Vekemans (samvekemans@universeodon.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 17:25:29 JST Sam Vekemans

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     @georgetakei because America is a gun.