• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          I’m all for owning anything and everything. with proper licensing, checks, and procedures.

          But anyone that wants to buy shit without paperwork, without paper trails, without background checks? There is not a single, good, legitimate reason to avoid that shit… and there is a whole lot of bad, dangerous, threat to society reasons to want to avoid that shit.

          i’m not gonna agree to disagree on this. You’re wrong. Full stop.

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            8 months ago

            I guess the same argument could be used for privacy aswell. If you’re not going to do anything illegal then why not let the government read your messages and monitor your browser history? What’s the problem if you have nothing to hide?

            99.999% of gun owners are never going to shoot anyone. These kind of databases infringe on the privacy of perfectly innocent citizens only because of the extremely rare number of bad actors among them.

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              8 months ago

              I guess the same argument could be used for privacy aswell

              You could, if you wanted to comically misrepresent the point.