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   Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵 (lednabm@stranger.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 01:16:53 JST Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵

   True dat....

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:04:36 JST mark

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     • Zephod Beeblebrox

     @BritishTechGuru @bigheadtales @lednaBM @Runyan50 why exactly are mass shootings excluded? The point of assault weapons is mass shootings.

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     Zephod Beeblebrox (britishtechguru@techtoots.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:04:37 JST Zephod Beeblebrox

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     @bigheadtales @lednaBM @Runyan50

     Gun Crime Rate (excl. mass shootings, per 100,000):

     1980s: 5.5-7.0
     1993: Peak at 7.0
     1995-2005: 4.0-5.0
     2010: ~3.6
     2020: 6.1 (pandemic spike)

     General decline since 1990s, with recent increases.

     It's not the guns - it's something else driving the spikes.

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     Big Head Tales (bigheadtales@mstdn.party)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:04:38 JST Big Head Tales

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     @BritishTechGuru @lednaBM @Runyan50
     I would suggest you aren’t bothering to look.

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     Zephod Beeblebrox (britishtechguru@techtoots.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:04:39 JST Zephod Beeblebrox

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     @lednaBM @Runyan50 @bigheadtales

     From what I saw, things were no different before, during or after.

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     Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵 (lednabm@stranger.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:04:41 JST Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵

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     • Zephod Beeblebrox

     @BritishTechGuru @Runyan50 @bigheadtales We had a ban before and things were just fine. As for taking them away, we'll, we all saw how well taking drugs away worked....

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     Zephod Beeblebrox (britishtechguru@techtoots.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:04:42 JST Zephod Beeblebrox

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     @Runyan50 @lednaBM @bigheadtales How would you know who had them? That sounds like a recipe for civil war part 2.

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     Runyan50 (runyan50@newsie.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:04:43 JST Runyan50

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     @lednaBM @bigheadtales Maybe if we criminalized assault weapons and included turning them in, we could get a nice 100,000 or so #MAGA in prison when they refuse.

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:07:46 JST mark

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     • Zephod Beeblebrox

     @BritishTechGuru @lednaBM @bigheadtales @Runyan50 I live in a gun infested state. Everybody is probably armed, or has quick access in their cars or bedrooms.

     stopping an intruder or violent crime is pure fantasy. The only thing an unprotected gun in a car has ever done is get stolen. Not only will intruders not wait for you to call, if they have bad intent they aren't going to wait for you to dig out your piece.

     The movies are movies, and purchasing fancy steel doesn't make a person into rambo

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     Zephod Beeblebrox (britishtechguru@techtoots.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:07:47 JST Zephod Beeblebrox

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     @lednaBM @bigheadtales @Runyan50

     I lived in a gun-free country (Britain) and the shooting incidents that occurred were upon later investigations discovered to be down to clear inaction on the part of the police - as though they had been told not to intervene.

     Safely stored weapons are useless weapons. They need to be ready to go. No gang of burglars is going to wait while you talk to the 911 operator.

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     Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵 (lednabm@stranger.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:07:48 JST Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵

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     @bigheadtales @BritishTechGuru @Runyan50

     Look, guys.... if i was given a choice to live in a community or city where no guns were allowed versus one where guns were allowed, I would take the former. Police, and now drones, can respond quicker than ever to reports of criminal activity. I can dial 911 faster than getting a safely stored weapon ready to fire. Gun ownership is all about ego and feelings of power....

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     Big Head Tales (bigheadtales@mstdn.party)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:07:49 JST Big Head Tales

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     @lednaBM @BritishTechGuru @Runyan50
     Very oddly specific dates and ranges in the statistics, almost like someone was cherrypicking data.

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     Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵 (lednabm@stranger.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:07:50 JST Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵

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     @BritishTechGuru @bigheadtales @Runyan50 The ban was 1994 to 2004.... go figure

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:34:57 JST mark

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     @BritishTechGuru @lednaBM @bigheadtales @Runyan50 it's not always open carry here. Beneath half of the car seats, in nearly every fanny pack, many work bags.

     These get used very rarely (to the point of not needing them), so shootings will stay similar. Our loosened regulations probably didn't add more guns, because they were already there.

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     Zephod Beeblebrox (britishtechguru@techtoots.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 21:34:58 JST Zephod Beeblebrox

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     @ATLeagle @lednaBM @bigheadtales @Runyan50 I'm in SC. It's an open carry state I don't actually see many guns in my day to day life. I think I've seen one person open carrying since open carry started for CWP holders couple of years ago. Since the state became open carry for all I've seen none. I've also not heard of any increases in shootings.