Migrating here (or maybe keeping both) from @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.ml
Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.
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Tbf, if you spent 25yr addicted to jumping in front of trucks, yeah I'd probably recommend that while you should stop, if you need an intermediary then switching to smart cars is at least good harm reduction.
What, do you hate harm reduction?
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[NSFW] Women who like men: how do you prefer your partner's pubes--trimmed? bald? sasquatch?
Unless Ace there identifies as a woman and likes men who have bald vaginas, tbf.
Maybe a lamp isn't worth sending your husband to 'certain death' then. If you're really that concerned about buying off FB marketplace just go to HomeGoods™ ffs, they've got lamps too.
Guess that is more of an indication of her priorities, "a possible chance at a discount on this mass produced lamp is worth the chance that my husband literally dies."
"Hey, wife sent me, you have some 'lamp' I think?"
"Yeah wife sent me, she said this is the lamp."
"Lol wives amirite?"
"Yeah lol, and right when I'm trying to watch the damn Hawks game today!"
"Oh Hawks fan huh? I want to watch that game too, wanna hit a sports bar and grab a few brews over it?"
"Yeah let's go, got a B-Dubz down the road."
End scene.
they live on the other side of the county and it's going to take them an hour to get to our house.
Every now and again I'm reminded just how small some countries are, I drive 45min to work every day and I'm only one town over, meanwhile in 15 more minutes you can be on "the other side" of a whole country?
Meanwhile the trip across the US with no stops and traffic will take me 1d 19hr for 2,544 mi (4094.171 km) (according to openstreetmaps).
Edit: LOL I can't read. It's still true I suppose just not in this case haha.
I just like the added privacy that privacy focused browsers...focus on. Not that deep really.
Dude awesome! Good to know, thanks!
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Reminder, Ronald fucking Reagan passed the first gun restriction laws
Well no, the existence of the NFA from 1934 alone disproves that. At the time, Regan was only 23 and working as a sports broadcaster, his entire political career up to that point amounted to "Student Body President" at his college and leading a student strike that got the president of the university itself to resign. He wasn't even a California resident (much less governor) until 3y after the NFA. About 10yr later (from the NFA) he would enter actual politics as a Democrat, joining the:
Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions (HICCASP), worked with the AFL–CIO to fight right-to-work laws, and continued to speak out against racism when he was in Hollywood. In 1945, Reagan planned to lead an HICCASP anti-nuclear rally, but Warner Bros. prevented him from going. In 1946, he appeared in a radio program called Operation Terror to speak out against rising Ku Klux Klan activity, calling it a "capably organized systematic campaign of fascist violence and intimidation and horror".
Clearly it went downhill after that, but fun fact nonetheless.
Regardless, there were plenty gun laws before The Mulford Act (which shouldn't exist), like said NFA (which also shouldn't exist.)
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No, changed in
aboutexactly 1968. They then became "instant" in 1993.Either it wasn't a licensed dealer but rather a private seller who looked enough like one to you at the time (legal), or they are a registered FFL and sold it to you illegally (a them problem not a you problem, you're good unless you're a felon or something).
Put it on Soulseek once you rip it please! Others are likely looking as well!
Every so often I have to buy a DVD because it isn't available online anywhere, and I always try to upload it somewhere as a community service when I do lol.
Idk I don't know about
&either (I know&&but I'm guessing it's different), but you can ctrl+z it, then usebgto run it in the background, thendisownto divorce it from the terminal.I'll try
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Meanwhile I'm nervous to tell the lady at my local truck "Bueñas noches mi amor, yo quero dos pollo y dos chorizo, solo cilantro no cebolla, y una agua de piña. Y una Pimienta serrano y cinco limones verdes." because I don't wanna be accused of cultural appropriation.
She speaks english and I already know that, so it feels weird.
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Depends on who is holding it.
Turns out, while those supporting fascism embraced gun ownership, those who oppose it apparently decided sometime after 1945 that fascism will succumb to wishes and hope, so that may play a role in the discrepancy you're witinessing.
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Australia only took 20% of the guns, yet to take 20% of the US' guns at the same price they did (in 1996, without even accounting for inflation) literally pulls up in my calc with scientific notation. Their new buyback is only estimated at costing $15 billion despite having significantly less guns than even last time, when they still had less than we do now at their "more." What's more nearly half of the guns they got in were "shotguns and pea rifles (.22lr)," only 204 were automatic. You're, by your own metric, "part of the problem" unless you relinquish Pappy's shotgun at the next available buyback (or just cut the receiver in half yourself.) Well, what are you waiting for? You'd "turn it in without even thinking about it" yet you've had two years to destroy it or relinquish it in one of the buybacks the US already regularly does yet you have it. Get on it then.
People will still die even if you could thanos snap the entire concept of guns out of existence, the only difference being those stronger and faster will more easily be able to exert their will over those smaller, slower, disabled, etc. The soul crushing surveillance state is more effective in curbing crime than stripping people of their right to protect themselves tbh, of course either way you're losing rights to privacy or protection and neither are frankly ideal, I'd rather possibly be murdered tbh.
I'm gonna push back on "slightly inconvenienced." Going by my prior example, "being robbed and stabbed in a walmart parking lot" wouldn't go under "slight" on my inconveniences list. Them not having my brand of potato bread so I have to get white bread is a slight inconvenience, stab wounds are a little more than "slight."
"Obviously helpful" I disagree with too quite frankly, I'm not going to shoot up a school (unless a school is literally trying to murder me but somehow that seems unlikely), so then who am I "helping" by relinquishing my gun, the guy who wanted to stab and rob me in the walmart parking lot? Well forgive me for saying, but I don't think I'm inclined to help that guy, I'd rather make it as difficult as possible by defending myself, preferably through intimidation rather than actual use of force (which again is what happened), but still.
Interestingly enough,
For example, as a gearhead, requiring every single gun to be licensed like a car
You DON'T have to have a licence for every car you buy (nor a background check), moreover you DON'T need a license to buy a car at all, and you DON'T even need one to drive on private roads. You DO need a license to drive on public roads and you DO need a license to carry a gun in public however (in most states), so congratulations your goal is already met (in most states).
Taxing guns is in effect "guns only for the privileged." All it does is disenfranchise further those who likely need personal protection the most. Call me crazy but I can't get behind "guns only for those who can afford an arbitrary tax" as I believe those in poverty should be able to protect themselves as well.
And "caught with an unlicensed gun" let me ask, do you think this will be enforced evenly, or do you think police will use this as an excuse to continue overpolicing and overcharging disenfranchised minorities (exactly like they currently do with drugs)? Something tells me that this is just going to be another thing to charge the blacks for and every now and again a white guy will get caught up in it. Idk if it's just "the entire history of policing in this country dating as far back as the 1700s" or what, but I don't think this is finally the year we turn it all around.
And finally, all that is not to say "let's not do anything," but rather "further legislation on top of the 50,000+ current gun laws in this country isn't ever going to be nearly as effective as addressing the root causes (of which there are multiple) of the violence." Even if we thanos snapped away the concept of firearms (as if they wouldn't be reinvented, they were made in ancient goddamn China it isn't that hard), we'd STILL have to address those root problems. The
guncrime is a symptom not the disease.Good luck moving! Hope you have a marketable skill though, turns out America isn't the only country that is difficult to legally immigrate to either. You selling that shotgun before you move though? I might be interested for the right price. Help with the moving costs and such, more than the buyback would too, and I'll give it a good home where it'll be lovingly cared for instead of desecrated. I'm looking for a browning a5, or a trench gun, or a 2x barrel side by side. Do it all legal like, you drop it off at a nearby FFL (I'll help you find one if need be) and I'll give you the address of mine, they'll background check me and everything.
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Well, if it sets your mind at ease:
not to mention the data on the relative lack of shooting in countries where you can't as easily own these things.
With over 600,000,000 guns and literally trillions of stacked rounds in 45% of the US pop's hands (approx 156,600,000 people) with no registry to know who/where, with a general unwillingness to relinquish them, that ship has sailed, pandora's box has been opened, even if they stopped gun sales today they'll be easy to get for our entire lifetime and more. We literally have more small arms and ammo than most of the worlds military and police forces combined. Might as well join the club.
And more often than not the presence of a gun is enough without having to actually kill anyone, anyway, as it was the only time I had to "use" mine. He pulled a knife, I touched the grip of my licenced ccw firearm, he decided "maybe not this one" and walked away, I went about grocery shopping as intended. Thank "Bob" I didn't have to shoot him, but also I don't like stabwounds.
And sometimes, as fucked up as it sounds at first, sometimes people need killing. Self defense and defense of loved ones specifically, preventative of an immediate threat, not preemptive of a non-immediate threat, nor punitive, and always as a last resort, but had the knife weilder decided to press the issue, I'd rather him than me, given the choice. I'm not the one attacking people, I just need to get bread so I can make a meager sandwich for my lunch at work tomorrow without being gutted.
And btw:
That said, even I have my grandpa's old pump shotgun on a shelf
You've already joined the club, you're one of the 156,600,000. Welcome! As long as you use it safely, responsibly, and legally (incl self defense, "Bob" forbid), it's nice to have you aboard. But make no mistake whether you have shotshells or not, you have the shotgun and that does make you a gun owner. As the Ramones said (quoted from the 1932 movie Freaks), Gabba gabba we accept you, one of us, one of us!
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Oh for sure lmao, don't even get me started on us cloners! "Yes I have 8 different configurations of the same gun, I have the a1, a2, 727, 733, then my moderns with the a3 flattops in 3 different lengths/calibers!"
Lol I just mean that while to us nerds there may be a distinction between nut and nerd, to anyone outside of the nerddom that distinction is moot. They're just waiting to ask how many people have to die so we can "enjoy our nerd hobby." Telling them the distinction isn't going to help, they aren't "insulting" you with "nut" out of confusion but out of contempt. And so, I do not take insult in it, I accept it and "actually it's a good thing."
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I'mma be honest, while I understand your distinction, those using the phrase "gun nut" without a shred of irony do not. To them, you're one and the same.
Collector? Don't you mean "why do you need that many guns, you gun nut?"
Fuck it, I for one embrace the label. Honestly if anything, all conflating the two actually serves to accomplish is to normalize the actual "nuts" as "nerds," rather than making the nerds out to be nuts.
Try steam/proton instead of Wine
https://www.protondb.com/app/24780
ProtonDB says it runs well, but idk if that includes mods.