🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@TruthSandwich

No, I'm arguing the law as it is currently written accomplished nothing, puts people at **more** risk of gun death, and doesnt even have the slightest semblance of sanity to it.

How you can go from that to thinking all carbines should be illegal is, well, a little wackado.

@SteelFolk

@SteelFolk @TruthSandwich yes carbines are considered a type of pistol when it is below 16" and thus has the butstock removed. Carbines with a but stock (and thus 16" length) are still rifles though.

@TruthSandwich

Yes, and allowing something to be more concealable on the condition that is significantly more dangerous and likely to kill people unintentionally is a really stupid move on the democrats part if they were concerned with concealability.

@SteelFolk

@TruthSandwich

We arent discussing rifles, we are discussing carbines (same idea s a rifle but shorter barrel). Carbines are designed for close quarters defense.

@SteelFolk

@SteelFolk

Well good thing the democrats are making us safe by ensuring all our guns with shorter barrels cant aim for shit and will just hit random unintended targets every time you shoot... go dems!

@TruthSandwich

@Pantangelini

Sort a, few corrections:

> so your pov is that of a person from a rich & well connected family (republicans from philly even)

I grew up in poverty, my mom married rich. I had long since moved out at this point. So while my step-dad was rich and had these connections I myself was not raised and exposed to it as a rich person.

> when Trump came for dinner with them you thought he was brain dead based on nothing in particular

No it was based on very specific things he said and did, not nothing in particular.

> So all republicans are stupid cause their parents didn't have trump over for dinner

No they are stupid because he clearly demonstrates he is an idiot to everyone, you dont need to have him over for dinner. Me having met him personally just makes it easier to rule out some of the conspiracy theories around him just pretending to be dumb but in secret and in private he is some sort of genius. That said you dont need him over to see that, even that should be obvious to most.

> But you also thought joe biden was stupid when he came to visit your parent for dinner

In Joe's case it was less about stupidity and more about senility and immorality...

> So you are a rich kid from a rich well connected family. Which is very important for me to consider for some reason.

Again sorta... grew up in poverty, etc. Me being rich or well connected is irrelevant, what is relevant is that I had a more intimate insight into these people which may give me stronger opinions since I cant fabricate some illusion than their idiocy and immorality is all some act, as some do.

@caliandroid I find it concerning the repo doesnt have screen shots... makes me concerned it may not present aesthetic looking slides. I always try to use foss tech for my presentations but one of the biggest criticisms people give is that its hard to make attractive impactful slides. Ultimately I decided to use latex as its the best I could get and remain open.

@mzan I mean, yea, overall I'd say the democratic parties and republican parties have made a mess of most things and done a shit job handling any issue sanely.... im with ya on that.

@TruthSandwich

Oh it is certainly "inexplicable"... they didnt make guns with shorter barrels illegal, you can have a gun of any level of power as short as you want. The only rule is if you make it short, it also has to be extra dangerous and hard to aim, which is complete nonsense if you are trying to address concealability.

@TruthSandwich Yup, it is part of that whole mess of ridiculousness, that is true.

@libroraptor I didnt invent the full-R its a standard part of copperplate and many other scripts going back hundreds of years, including gothic scripts.

The rules around when to use each basically dictate that you use half-r when you need a descender low in fo the next letter and the full-r is for connectors closer to midline.. if you do "proper" scripts you should be using a mix of both.

@TruthSandwich if a barrel is less than 16 inches it cant have a butt stock which you use to stabilize the gun when you aim.

@mkj cant have a poll on a post with am image it seems.

The full r isnt well known but it is hundreds of years old and is standard in calligraphy, though not always used.

@trinsec

But if they do it that way then what would motivate anyone to stay on meta when they can get the same expiernce ad free by leaving and still talk to their friends on meta?

@admitsWrongIfProven @skyblond

@Pantangelini

As I said, I dont expect it to. It is intended to explain my POV, not to convince you of yours.