Switzerland used to have all their bridges wired to blow. They should probably get back on that :/
uuldika
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I was considering tipping off the FBI until around the second paragraph when I realized this was Dwarf Fortress. without context, this was.. disturbing to read.
handguns are much more common in homicides in general, but I think rifles are the weapon of choice in school shootings and other acts of domestic terrorism. they have more potential to kill a larger number of people in a shorter amount of time from a greater distance. in particular I'm thinking about the Las Vegas shooter who infamously used bump stocks to rain bullets on a crowd.
incidentally, we almost banned handguns decades ago. it's my understanding that that attempt at a ban - saved by last minute edits - are responsible for outlawing short-barreled rifles (they were trying to prevent people from making their rifles into handguns.)
They're not JUST for killing people and/or sport. Every reason you could legitimately need a gun for, the broad category "semi auto rifle" covers, so banning them has a disproportionate impact to people who use them legally and as tools vs banning handguns.
but do those purposes need semi-auto? can you not afford the extra second to charge the weapon between shots? the only situation I can envision is needing to protect yourself from criminals with semi-autos, which is a legitimate concern.
read up a bit. there's an interesting concurrence(!) from Kavanaugh, which basically said they're too busy, come back later.
it's wild to me that the Court struck down the ban on bump stocks in Cargill, which are obviously unusual devices without a history of use for self-defense (and strained to misinterpret the "by a single function of the trigger" language of the NFA) yet they decline to overturn this decision.
where's the internal consistency? you'd think they'd at least follow precedent they themselves set.
get the man some reading glasses already!
"assault weapons" are a nebulous concept. that law sounds like it was closely tailored to match the AR-15 and its clones, since that's the closest definition anyone can agree on. but it's not like thumb position, stock design etc. make the AR-15 more lethal than other rifles.
why don't they just ban semi-auto rifles? for home defense you can use a handgun, for hunting you can use a bolt action rifle of a pump action shotgun. you eliminate the bump stock loophole and it becomes harder to mow down a crowd.
obviously it's NATO admirals shitposting from the wall of TVs in the war room.
eh, sorta. the books the Nazis burned in that famous photograph were the library of Magnus Hirschfeld, a Jewish sexologist who studied and supported trans people, and who even hired some as his assistants. did the Nazis burn his books because he supported trans people, or because he was a Jew? both, I think. the Nazis practiced intersectional hatred. they accused Hirschfeld of promoting degeneracy to undermine Aryan society, an anti-Semitic trope that continues today.
gay and trans people were sent to concentration camps, but not usually to the death camps.
likewise, the predecessor to the NSDAP specifically singled out Jews in its founding document, but (afaik) not homosexuals.
this is my recollection anyway, as a trans woman who's a potential convert.
"oh, you have that song on vinyl? I have it on M66T-xxL."
whips out a AA battery and a piezo speaker.
the part numbering in the datasheet makes it look like there were dozens of different songs at one point, since they're numbered like -001, -002, -019, -068. I wonder what their full catalog looked like?
That actually sounds incredibly fun, as a law nerd!