• hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The casual implication here that a round of ammo in your luggage doesn’t imply you are an unsafe gun owner is insane. Lost rounds don’t just happen, they are a sign that the person didn’t account for all their ammo and secure it properly. There’s no reason to give these people a pass.

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      5 months ago

      I didnt say it wasn’t irresponsible and I didnt say give them a pass. I said don’t give them years in prison for an honest harmless mistake. Maybe ban them from returning? Something less extreme…

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          I understand what words mean, thanks. I’m responding to the hordes of teenagers frothing at the mouth for severe punishment in these cases. There are 5 now.

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              Can’t you see? The dude is fighting for their life. He’s literally spearheading the defense of those poor american. He might also be the one who will change the law of another country. 😄🫡

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              5 legal cases so far. Hordes of people in this and similar threads trying to hang tourists from the nearest tree because they enjoy guns.

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                5 cases is not very many, considering how long guns have been legal in this country and illegal in others. Doesn’t seem like a problem at all to me, just check your shit if you commonly carry murder implements around. 🤷‍♂️ Idk what else to tell you, these people didn’t even get punished.

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                    And I bet they never forget to check their bags for tools of death before international travel ever again. I really don’t know how you could, if that’s something you commonly carry around. It would be on mind constantly.

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          Do you realize there are 5 cases already like this? Do you know why? Because this mistake is super common.

          Do you realize that means this probably happened dozens of times a year before this recent change took effect? And that all those people in the past returned home with their ammo completely undetected by anyone, including themselves?

          You know what something’s called when nobody even notices it happened?

          Harmless. Absent of harm.

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            Do you realize there are 5 cases already like this? Do you know why? Because this mistake is super common.

            Maybe it’s common for Americans to be this lax with their weaponry?

            I don’t see the citizens of other countries making the same “common” mistake.

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      You just completely switch the argument with a red herring.

      It doesn’t matter whether that person is a safe gun owner or not here. And a lost round of ammunition is such an armchair take it makes me question if you should even have an opinion on the subject…

      A round of ammunition in your bag should not equate to years of prison, end of story.

      I had a box of .22 rounds in my backpack that I was bringing back from the gun store. Lo and behold it was loose, and some had unknowingly fell into my bag. I didn’t notice they were there for years until I did a deep clean of my backpack. No one counts throw-away ammunition.

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          Good to see that Lemmy is becoming as toxic A wasteland as Reddit ever was.

          • Armchairing ✅
          • Personal attacks instead of attacking the arguments ✅
          • Silent downvotes instead of actual discussion ✅
          • Misrepresenting an anecdote ✅

          All I did was provide an anecdote to show how easy it is to lose a round of ammunition. No one is strictly inventorying their .22 ammunition, it literally comes in boxes of loose rounds. Holes in the corners easily cause some to be misplaced during transportation. It’s not common but it happens, and when it does you’re not going to know, because, again, no one is inventorying their loose rounds.

          Despite me calling out the armchair opinion, you decide that doubling down on the armchairness was more appropriate, and used an anecdote as a way to personally attack me, instead of my argument.

          You made no attempt to actually address the point I was making, and instead took the easy route which is just personal attacks…

          You can do better than that.