It’s a long read, and these aren’t my own thoughts, but the guy who wrote this, I think is on the right track for getting “assault rifles” off the streets and enacting more pro-active gun control all around..
For my anti-gun friends, how does this sound?
First, for people convicted of domestic violence, even a misdemeanor, how about a lifetime prohibition on firearms possession?
Furthermore, a government license should be required for anyone who wants to manufacture, import, or sell firearms. The license should be mandatory not only for formal businesses, but also for individuals who make repetitive transactions for the purpose of profit. This would cover people at gun shows who put up signs declaring themselves to be “unlicensed dealers.” Anyone who engages in the firearms business without a federal license should be punished by up to five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
Manufacturers, importers, and dealers who are granted a federal license should have to keep meticulous records of every transaction. Their records and inventory should be subject to warrantless, random inspections by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). If a license-holder goes out of business, all the records of past sales should be delivered to the ATF.
Before a gun store can sell a firearm to an ordinary citizen, the citizen should have to get government approval. This should apply not only to storefront sales, but also if the retailer rents a table at a gun show. As for the Internet, retailers can be allowed to advertise there, but the actual transfer of a firearm should only be allowed at the retailer’s place of business. The purchaser should be required to answer dozens of questions certifying his or her background information. It is important that the government know the purchaser’s race, and whether or not she is Hispanic. Before the sale is consummated, the Federal Bureau of Investigation or a state counterpart ought to be contacted for a background check on the purchaser.
Any customer who purchases two or more handguns in a week should be automatically flagged and reported to the federal government and to local law enforcement. Every handgun manufacturer should require handgun buyers to purchase a safe storage device for every handgun. Even if the buyer owns a gun safe, the buyer should always be forced to buy a separate locking device.
Of course, licensed manufacturers should have to put a serial number on every firearm. If someone alters or obliterates a serial number, the person should face five years imprisonment.
Felons should be forever prohibited from owning guns. They should never be allowed to hold a gun in their hands for even a few seconds. The lifetime prohibition should include non-violent felons who have been law-abiding for decades; anyone who was convicted of marijuana possession in 1971 should be presumed to be a continuing menace to society.
A lifetime prohibition should also apply to anyone who has ever been committed to a mental institution. Mental illness is not necessarily permanent, but the ban should be.
Patients prescribed medical marijuana should be banned, even in states where such use is legal. In fact, all medical marijuana cardholders should be automatically banned, regardless of whether they are current users.
Current federal gun laws provide a statutory procedure for prohibited persons to petition the ATF for a restoration of rights. For example, ATF would have discretion to restore the Second Amendment rights of a non-violent felon who has been law-abiding for many years. Congress should enact appropriations riders to prevent ATF from considering such petitions.
Only persons over 21 should be able to purchase a handgun at a gun store. That 18-to-20-year-olds defend our country with automatic weapons overseas does not mean that they can be trusted with handguns within our country. A similar law should bar rifle or shotgun purchases by persons who are under 18.
Assault rifles must be virtually banned. These, according to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, are “short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power.” For example, the Russian AK-47 or the American M-16 rifles. No civilian should be able to transfer or possess any assault rifle that was not already in circulation by 1986. Any of the older assault rifles in citizen hands should be registered with the government. If someone wants to acquire one, both the buyer and seller should have to file an application with the ATF. The tax for a transfer should be $200, to discourage ownership. In the application, the ATF should require fingerprints and two recent photographs. Local law enforcement should be notified. The FBI should conduct a background investigation, and the registration process should take months.
If the purchaser is permitted to acquire the assault rifle, she should be required to maintain records proving that the rifle is registered, and notify the government of any change in address. To take the assault rifle out of state, the owner should need written permission from ATF in advance.
Assault rifles are one type of automatic firearm, but there are many other types of automatics. All of them should be controlled just as strictly as assault rifles. A violation of the stringent laws on these guns should be a felony with up to 10 years imprisonment—and much longer in cases of multiple violations.
So, why does the purchaser’s race matter?
And why is drunken use of firearms cool, but God help you if you got high once in 1972?
One of my proposals is that firing ranges should be required to ban alcohol. And firing ranges that have exotic/military grade weapons (By which I mean actual full automatic weapons, grenade launchers, etc) should be required to card and deny admission to anyone under 18. (Everyone’s forgotten about the incident in Arizona where somebody got killed because a young, lightweight child was allowed to shoot a weapon she didn’t have the body mass to control yet.
I am honestly circulating this because I can’t tell if it’s serious or sarcastic. Not allowing non-violent felons to get their gun rights back if they behave? Not allowing anyone who has ever used medical marijuana to have guns? (As worded, it would also prevent people who have been providing their kids with medical marijuana). Lifetime ban if you’ve ever been committed? All of those read to me as heavy sarcasm, not real suggestions. Or as if this was sarcastic and the OP is circulating it as if it was real. The “that 18-20-year-olds defend our country with weapons overseas” line really reads like sarcasm to me. And the race line.
But the OP seems to be circulating it as if it was serious…
Ha! Cannabis remains a Schedule 1 controlled substance, legally on par with heroin and methamphetamine. Using it at any point is a felony-level crime, and felons are permanently barred from possessing guns, let alone owning them. The supremacy clause ensures that medical marijuana is not recognized at the federal level, and it only goes un-prosecuted due to the immense costs of prosecuting entire states.
The race line exists in real life on real gun-purchase paperwork, It was included for continuity with the existing law, so the ATF can keep doing what they have already been doing.
As a matter of fact, every single one of OP’s suggestions has already passed into law and already gone into effect. It’s a list of existing gun laws.
Huh. Then we might actually already be over-regulated.
And under-enforced.
Unfortunately reminded of one thing that happened recently.
I am aware that I do have some persistent ED-type dysmorphia shit going on. (Also not helped by the amount of harassment I run into here, or literally never seeing anyone who looks like me anymore.)
But, that was really brought home when I got startled on the bus. I ended up standing near the downstairs camera and monitor…and at first didn’t recognize myself at all when I caught a glance at my full-length image cycling through on the screen.
Besides looking even paler and sicker than I would have expected in that horrible lighting? The person on the screen looked actively thin, with their clothes hanging funny because of it.
Took a couple more monitor cycles to figure out that, yeah, they should be standing where I was and were also wearing the same clothes.
A more disconcerting experience than I wanted to think about, and it’s hard to describe exactly all the ways.
Man, when I was like 16 I got so sick of being made fun of for being the fat kid that I took an axe down inna woods, chopped down a tree, and started doing log-lifts all the time. I got strong as fuck, but I didn’t lose no weight. I actually got bigger.
Same thing happened when I got into fighting. I got even stronger, and I got *fast*, man, and nimble, like a cat. Still chubby.
Body-building culture is a bunch of crap, my dude. Functional muscle is not necessarily toned or lean. You can be swole as hell and still be heavy. And that’s cool.
Embrace your inner barbarian. And when fatphobic little gym twinks try to body shame you, you should DESTROY THEM with your MIGHTY AXE
Can comfirm, i am Quite Fat ™ but i still hit my punching bag hard enough last week make it touch the ceiling and broke a finger in the process
You know, I train with (martial arts) a bunch of dudes, and a few bodybuilders have showed up over the years.
And every damn one of those huge shredded motherfuckers has the endurance of a fucking newborn puppy. Fifteen minutes into warmups and they’re panting for air like like they’re about to die. I’ve sparred them and every one of them telegraphs their moves about two weeks in advance, and are slower than my dead grandpa because their huge useless muscles get in the damn way.
Now. I also work with a couple of guys who are not weightlifters. They do, however, do very physical jobs and are Big Dudes. Picture this sort of build.
No abs to speak of, a bit of a tummy, and those motherfuckers can pick up one of the weightlifters and throw them.
And they’re fast. Like, unfair fast.
Bodybuilding culture is bullshit. Embrace your status as a giant barbarian and if anyone gives you crap throw them off a mountain.
This is true for all humans, too!
At my heaviest (well over 300lbs) I still ran an 11 minute mile (pre-disability). And even when I was at my most active, and training intensely, I was never hardbodied despite working out full time. Functional muscle for me looks like horse legs and a big muscular butt with a soft tummy and big arms.
I’m built like a Celtic Warrior Goddess and I will never have a flat tummy and toned arms and that is fine by me because I could snap a grown man in half.
Yes!
Have you seen olympic powerlifters?
This is Sarah Robles, on the USA Olympic Powerlifting team.
Skinny? No. Could pick me up with one arm? Absofuckinglutely.
Sarah Robles was once in an auto accident. She braced her arms against the steering wheel & by main force held it back from smashing her in the chest.
She fought her car & she won.
wHAT
Holy shit I love her even more.
That would shatter my arms like glass.
I’m the same when it comes to functional muscle. I weigh nearly 200 pounds, I’ve got a soft tummy and some muffin top/love handle action going on, but I’ve got a lot of muscle tone and definition in my limbs andcan easily lift over 100 pounds. My endurance is excellent, too. I don’t tire even after hiking up mountains and can easily work long shifts.
I know that I’ll never be thin, but how much does that matter if I can crush people?
Side note: my strength has been the best thing for my gay ass. I offer to help cute girls lift things at work and they swoon at how easily I handle everything. They’ll follow me (while I’m carrying multiple beverage palettes) from the dry storage room to the storefronts going “Wow! She’s so strong! Look at those guns!” I’m known for being delicate and singing like a bird, but also for being a thicc beefcake lady that doesn’t need help from men.
if you know any muslims in the uk or north america please please tell them to be careful on april 3rd there’s this awful “punish a muslim” day that these vile assholes have planned. it could be a sick hoax but it’s better to be prepared and stay vigilant just in case
What?? What’s the hell?!?!
The UK Counter Terrism force is asking anyone who recieves a letter like this to perserve it as well as they can and hand it over to the athorities so that they can try and find out who’s doing this. I don’t think that as of right now anyone in the US or Canada has been recieving them, they appear to have only been sent to 6 areas in England, however if you are in the US or Canada and you do recieve a letter like this DO turn it into the authorities because even if this is a hoax people might still decide to participate in this gross act.
Why you shouldn’t put goldfish in a bowl – WTF fun facts
By the way, bettas are the same. It’s a myth that they live in puddles. Wild bettas live in rice patties that look like this:
And you know how males fight in captivity? Yeah see, in the wild, each male betta has a territory of roughly one square meter [X]. That’s over 260 gallons of water per betta! Of course they’ll fight in a tiny 1 gallon tank! (The myth about puddles exists because, in the dry season, a betta may get trapped in a puddle, and it is equipped to survive that, but only for a short period of time). Also, notice how much is growing in that water – bettas need a lot of places to hide in and rest on, not just a single bamboo shoot in the center of a vase! They will get stressed and even more aggressive without the hides.
Fish are animals just like your other pets. Do your research before buying and treat them appropriately. If you can’t afford a proper betta or goldfish set up (at LEAST 5 gallons for a betta with a heater and hides, at LEAST 20 gallons for a goldfish with a strong filtering system and NO GRAVEL, and I recommend adding at least 10 gallons to those minimums for healthy and happy fish), don’t get one. They are living things, not decor pieces.
Here is more information on how to properly care for: Goldfish: 1234 Bettas: 123
I’m going to shove that into the face of the next person who tries to get outraged at me bc I love Fight Club
I mean, I get the satire, but I also love Fight Club on a totally non-satirical level. It’s the best fictional representation I’ve ever seen of a very particular kind of [screams internally]. I saw/read it at exactly the right time for it to be maximally cathartic to me, and I will never apologize for that. My experience with people who unironically savor the violent aspects of the film isn’t that they’re dumb privileged assholes – it’s that they’re in a particular kind of pain that Fight Club is uniquely suited to address. I know this because that was me!
People can enjoy it for whatever reasons they please, and I don’t want to come off as “it’s only okay if you’re shipping to cope”, but…I wish people would recognize that there *is* a large amount of “I like this to cope” in Fight Club fandom. And in the backlash I’ve found this note of “white men aren’t psychologically complex enough to like things for non-superficial reasons or to have private pains that manifest in oblique ways”, which is disturbing. As though the idea of men liking something violent because it scratches a psychological itch or soothes a personal pain is too sophisticated for those boorish idiots – clearly they just like the explosions. Women are allowed to be complicated enough to find subtlety and granularity, but everyone knows men can’t be trusted with it.
…also, you can know that something is satire or is meant to mock its characters but identify with them anyway
^ this is a way more concise version of that fucking novel I just wrote
but that’s okay because the fucking novel you just wrote is great 👍🏼
there used to be fewer winning zip codes though; I grew up in an extremely liberal post-hippie town in a blue state and it was still pretty much like “if this then best move to SF or maybe NYC fucking asap, maybe up to and including running away from home as a minor” wrt being gay in the late 80s and I do feel like that’s changed quite a bit for sexual orientation stuff
gayness in the late 80s
there were 450 people at my grades 9 through 12 high school, and I can think of 4 that I was aware were gay at the time, and not because they were all proudly out of the closet
one was a super obvious, really sweet guy who cultivated a highly vocal crush on Madonna and we all liked him so we just let him do that because that’s what felt kind. one kid was What? I’m a Theater Kid, Theater, Also It’s The 80s I Can Have A Forelock If I Want, one there was just heavy rumor, one was my friend P who was a nice sad closeted preppy boy I wouldn’t ever have clocked if I didn’t hang out with him and even so we never talked about it, not once. no girls at all, although looking back now I can’t believe I didn’t connect the dots wrt one
basically? nobody came out till they went away to college. that was just how that was. you wanted to get out of the immediate social and family crucible first. we didn’t have internet yet, the couple hundred people around you were the only world you had. at some point in my thirties I found out my old high school now had a gay/straight alliance and I think I literally cried
again: this was a small sheltered private school in a lefty hippie town in Massachusetts
Do any other 80s kids (or older, but I think kids got a lot of it) remember the basic health information type brochures on HIV/AIDS and how intensely heavily they blamed the epidemic on bisexual men?
Because I sure do remember feeling suspicious of bisexual men and wondering why they would be so terribly irresponsible and so hurtful to all the rest of us as to spread the plague in ways even gay men didn’t.
If anyone is wondering why I immediately shut down someone the other day for telling a bi man to shut up about homophobia because wlw have it worse?
That shit is why.
Do not try to tell me, someone born in 1979, that homophobia and biphobia against bi men wasn’t as bad as anything else because I will pee in your cereal bowl.
“bi men are responsible for spreading HIV” totally yes, but it was actually worse than that
it was “actually there’s no such thing as a bi man and anyone who says he is one is lying because he doesn’t want to admit to being gay, therefore he’s exactly the sort of terrible deceitful person who would selfishly spread HIV”
with a hefty side of “oh and bisexuality doesn’t exist period, it just extra specially doesn’t exist in men, in women it’s sort of a thing but only in a totally fake immature phase bullshit way”
and both of those messages were coming from the gay community just as much as or maybe even more than from the straight oppressors
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Yep, that’s true.
Also there was a heaping spoonful of racism mixed in, at least from what I remember. People did a lot of sensationalist talking about black men “on the down low.”
Reblogging again to add that I also remember too well when bi women were supposedly bringing Filthy Diseases to unsuspecting Decent Lesbians. At least partly thanks to proximity to bi men, I can only assume, though I don’t recall hearing it outright. Any men were bad enough.
(That would of course be besides the health threat to straight men, because assumed promiscuity and lack of selectiveness. Plus likely the association with plague-carrying bi men, again.)
It was a total fucking mess well up into the ‘90s, that I saw directly.
Re: Massachusetts.
By the early 2000s you could be gay in public high school but you would still likely be stuck with a smaller amount of people who find you acceptable.
My mother informs me as of when our gay marrige bill passed over a decade ago now, non of the adults she knew were ok with it and at most supporrd civil unions. Again. Liberal eastern MA suburbs. One of my friend got kicked out for being a lesbian.
Things are better now but to be clear: the law forced people to accept they were on the wrong side. Not the other way around. The same people who objected will now act like they have always supported gay rights now because it’s now not acceptable to admit you didn’t.
Man, when I was like 16 I got so sick of being made fun of for being the fat kid that I took an axe down inna woods, chopped down a tree, and started doing log-lifts all the time. I got strong as fuck, but I didn’t lose no weight. I actually got bigger.
Same thing happened when I got into fighting. I got even stronger, and I got *fast*, man, and nimble, like a cat. Still chubby.
Body-building culture is a bunch of crap, my dude. Functional muscle is not necessarily toned or lean. You can be swole as hell and still be heavy. And that’s cool.
Embrace your inner barbarian. And when fatphobic little gym twinks try to body shame you, you should DESTROY THEM with your MIGHTY AXE
Can comfirm, i am Quite Fat ™ but i still hit my punching bag hard enough last week make it touch the ceiling and broke a finger in the process
You know, I train with (martial arts) a bunch of dudes, and a few bodybuilders have showed up over the years.
And every damn one of those huge shredded motherfuckers has the endurance of a fucking newborn puppy. Fifteen minutes into warmups and they’re panting for air like like they’re about to die. I’ve sparred them and every one of them telegraphs their moves about two weeks in advance, and are slower than my dead grandpa because their huge useless muscles get in the damn way.
Now. I also work with a couple of guys who are not weightlifters. They do, however, do very physical jobs and are Big Dudes. Picture this sort of build.
No abs to speak of, a bit of a tummy, and those motherfuckers can pick up one of the weightlifters and throw them.
And they’re fast. Like, unfair fast.
Bodybuilding culture is bullshit. Embrace your status as a giant barbarian and if anyone gives you crap throw them off a mountain.
i love and support all strong, fat people
This is my body type and the body type of every male in my family. We are all broad dudes but also have a lot of muscle but we never actually look leaner. It used to be a problem for me bc I though I wasnt doing enough to loose weight and would just push harder and get bigger and while i could snap anyone in half in highschool I never was toned like the other guys in class. It still causes me some body dysphoria but this post does make me feel better.
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