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No. If people are too chickenshit to leave the house without their emotional support firearms, then they alone should have to bear the consequences of those ac
by renewedrebecca 3y ago
No. If people are too chickenshit to leave the house without their emotional support firearms, then they alone should have to bear the consequences of those actions.
I've managed to fly on airplanes for 45 years now without packing anything that would go against the TSA rules. Surely an actual legislator, who should be held to a higher standard anyway, can handle the same amount of responsibility. I'm sure this Republican state senator would have felt the same way if it was a basketball player getting busted for a vape pen in a Russian airport instead.
- elmerfud 3y agoThe difference with your vape pen analogy was that that basketball player intentionally brought an illegal substance into the country thinking they could not be held responsible for it. This senator did an accidental thing that was reported to the authorities as soon as it was prudent to do so. If your basketball player, of who we all know we're talking about, accidentally carried it into the border of Russia and then surrendered it to customs saying I brought this illegal substance accidentally I would be on the same side of showing a leniency to encourage this kind of voluntary surrender of contraband. As would any reasonable person because getting people to voluntarily follow the rules is much better than doing it through force of terror which encourage this in them to hide the fact they are doing it such as your basketball player example did.
- tristan957 3y ago> emotional support firearm Do you lock the door to your home at night? In Boy Scouts, we have a motto, "Be prepared." Why do anti-2A people regularly belittle people who carry guns? How is it any different than carrying a pocket knife or locking your doors? You are preparing for any situation the world might throw at you. The likelihood that someone will break into your home is low, so why lock the door? Is it an emotional support lock?
- dev_slash_null 3y agoLocking your door at night is extremely unlikely to have any life threatening downsides. I suppose you could concoct a scenario where you live with someone with an altered mental status and the locked door prevents them from escaping during a fire, but that's reaching.
- tristan957 3y agoA gun at rest, which this case was, is also extremely unlikely to have any life threatening downsides. What is your point?
- dev_slash_null 3y agoAre you trying to claim that locking your door at night, and carrying a firearm daily, both result in the same amount of risk of life threatening downsides? Because I would very much disagree with that statement.
- tristan957 3y agoYes, because a gun that sits in a holster with a safety on is just as likely to kill you as a door is. Guns don't shoot themselves.