@Playfulanddaring I think that's a persecution fantasy to justify any gun safety proposal rather than the reality so no I don't think liberals would do the same.

I must say though, it's cute how you think that solely "you" would take on whatever force came for your guns. I love how you all think you're Chuck Norris but yet I'm naïve ha 😂

@redredred I am not the person who should be defining assault weapons for the purpose of regulation. I've told you what arms I believe should not be allowable, as they are not needed to be used for protection nor hunting. We would have far fewer deaths today if we had banned these weapons in 1968 or in the 1990s, or any time up to the present.

There is a fundamental difference between arms specifically designed to kill large numbers of people and other commodities that have beneficial uses. It is disingenuous to assume an equivalency.

@windinhishair Your first sentence is the only one here that makes sense. The second amendment has nothing to do with hunting. It is all about enabling the killing of faithless politicians and their hangers on.

Personal weapons comparable to what government forces have seems to be a good measure to me for that purpose.

@redredred Government forces have heavy artillery, machine guns, heat-seeking missiles, etc. Your proposal to allow private citizens to own the same weapons is preposterous. It is people like you that have made the US into a gun-crazed fetish state, to our great detriment, and have caused many deaths.

But back to your original post. There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents California from enacting gun laws along the lines of the Texas abortion law, should that law be upheld. Or allowing the bill recently introduced into the Pennsylvania legislature to become law. That bill mandates all men to have a vasectomy after causing three pregnancies or when a man turns 40, whichever is first.

@RedBaron Those were things said by Texans. leaders in the state. Not my words at all.

But I'll tell you what - I'll tone down the "hostility" when you turn up the intellect.

Period. Full stop.

@Graylight Again with the pedantry. What is your major malfunction?

@RedBaron

@ninalanyon Interesting. I haven't studied game theory.

@windinhishair Nor I, but I have read a little about it. Robert Axelrod set up a competition to find the best strategy in actors expressed as populations of small computer programs. Tit for Tat by Anatol Rapoport won the early iterated competition and similar strategies also were successful against more sophisticated challengers later.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Axelrod, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatol_Rapoport

@ninalanyon Thanks! I will definitely delve into this.

@windinhishair few understand that though! They need a right they can understand! Without that understanding it's just plain not earth shaking! 🤷‍♂️

@DeWayfarer I will go with something that actually works and has a significant positive impact. If people are incapable of understanding, that is their problem.

@windinhishair and I would prefer something that in no way would be legalisticly walked all over with by those with the money to do so!

You know that is exactly what would happen since few understand gerrymandering!

@Subsumedpat They'll experience a BACKLASH as well.

@windinhishair Chief Justice Roberts said: The clear purpose and actual effect of S.B. 8, has been to nullify this Court's rulings.

And this is how we make the Supreme Court obsolete.

@Northwest Exactly. The extremism of the current Court makeup to accept such a state law would effectively reduce the Court's future impact, if states could simply run around rulings they dislike.

@Northwest @windinhishair Except they would strike down any “Blue State” law. This is Trump’s world now…heads I win tails you lose.

@RedBaron Because they will result in fewer guns in the marketplace, and fewer guns leads to fewer gun deaths. I agree with you that someone intent in obtaining a weapon of mass killing can obtain one illegally, but not everyone will do so. I think we probably agree on this issue more than we disagree. Where we disagree is that I believe the (at least initially) marginal improvement is a start and worthwhile, whereas you see it as completely ineffective. I get it, but we have to start somewhere, and I believe we would see modest changes that increase over time.

@windinhishair bullshit criminals don't buy guns in retail settings or complete background checks. Why do you think the crime and looting all over the TV isn't happening in red states?

@Playfulanddaring Crime is up in red states just as it is in blue and purple ones. I suggest you review your TV viewership for not presenting you with the facts and reality.

@bookerdana

Yes!

@WalksWith @bookerdana only in Kalifornia

@beckyromero Ammosexuals *rawr*

@beckyromero Never waste energy attacking a wall from outside when you can your opposition to destroy it from within. Its actually such a clever strategic move I am suprised an American thought it up.😷

@beckyromero what a stupid thing to say

@Playfulanddaring They probably will. Blue states produce 70% of the US GDP. They'd be fools to move to the red states that take from the others and drain the economy.

@windinhishair are you really that fucking stupid?

@Playfulanddaring I'm sorry that you refuse to accept economic facts and data, and replace it with hatred and vitriol.

@ElwoodBlues The current Court used foreign law in the questioning of lawyers in the recent Mississippi abortion case, although they have rejected foreign law previously. This Court seems bent on twisting existing law to finally outlaw abortion, no matter how much damage is done to the Court or our legal system.

@windinhishair I see Roe as de facto dead (since Casey this was predicable) and guns rights and laws getting more extreme with the Court about to go off the deep end…

@Graylight These final decisions will lay bare just how radically right the Court is (as if we didn’t know already)

@windinhishair Agreed, as I'm learning on other forums.

@Playfulanddaring All you do when you make comments like that is further expose your idiocy for all to see.

@FutureIdol Rvidently so is the Supreme Court -- at least the right wingers.