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buried_lede t1_ixchwea wrote

Reply to comment by Justinontheinternet in Vehicle pursuit, Hartford, with AR15, just crashed by guesthost1999

Worked in Australia.

The amount of mental health resources it would take to counter “It’s 1776” etc rhetoric coming from an entire political party is a totally uphill battle.

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darkoblivion21 t1_ixcqo1a wrote

There's plenty of examples of gun restrictions working when implemented at a national level but they never want to acknowledge that. They just point to x state with strict laws and say it's not working ignoring the fact that the guns are coming from other states with lax laws.

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buried_lede t1_ixcuz0z wrote

And the time it would take because of sheer numbers - there are more guns than people here now - and how motivated they are to the extreme, which fosters homemade guns, ghost guns, 3D printed guns, criminal activity.

But ultimately, it works. Under Bloomberg, NY’s biggest gun problem were WVa’s lax gun laws and I-95

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