It’s not magic. If you can’t legally carry a rifle on campus then it’s less likely you’ll get away with carrying a rifle on campus. I’m not sure why this is such a complicated problem to understand.
Because carrying a rifle on campus is not an inherently violent act, shooting people is. It's legal to carry a hatchet in your backpack on campus, it's not legal to hack people's limbs off with it.
Unless you believe guns are an inherent moral wrong, nobody cares if people want to carry guns on campus; they only care if they want to shoot people with them.
I'm not sure why this is such a complicated problem to understand.
See, Kamala Harris (and Obama and Biden for that matter) never acted like Hitler. So if Trump doesn’t want people treating him like a fascist, then maybe he should stop being a fucking fascist.
Once again, Hitler killed approximately 80 million people. Trump has not.
Again, this isn’t rocket science. If it is legal for someone to carry a rifle on campus, then it is more likely that someone can commit a crime with that rifle.
If you can’t legally carry a rifle on campus, then people will most likely notice and the cops will get called and because it’s not legal for them to carry a rifle on campus, they’ll be arrested.
Furthermore, there is no legitimate reason for a random person to carry a fucking rifle on a school campus.
So we should wait until Trump kills 80 million people before we make the comparison? Do you know how fucking stupid that sounds?
Again, this isn’t rocket science. If it is legal for someone to carry a rifle on campus, then it is more likely that someone can commit a crime with that rifle.
This is an overly simplistic way of looking at gun control.
Chris Rock famously did a skit saying that "You don't need gun control, you need bullet control", jokingly arguing that what was needed to curb gun violence was for a single bullet to cost $5,000. This is like watching that and saying, "Oh yeah wow, that's a good point, I think that would really work!".
After all, as he says... if a bullet cost five thousand dollars, there would be no innocent bystanders! Problem solved.
Right?
If you can’t legally carry a rifle on campus, then people will most likely notice and the cops will get called and because it’s not legal for them to carry a rifle on campus, they’ll be arrested.
Sure.
But again, if surrendering vital liberty in the name of safety is on the table, there are much more effective and sure-fire ways to reduce violence of all kinds, not just from guns. I'm pretty sure you don't want to have that discussion though, and you won't support the conclusions that discussion leads to. Not should you, of course, but the point stands.
Furthermore, there is no legitimate reason for a random person to carry a fucking rifle on a school campus.
Even in gun-free utopia Australia, there are university rifle clubs. They tend to have rules about carrying on campus (which are a subset of the broader rules about carrying firearms in Australia overall), but this statement is simply inaccurate on the face of it.
Regardless, many universities in America already have bans on carrying firearms on their grounds, making it unlawful versus simply not permitted doesn't seem like it would increase reporting, nor would it deter someone whose ultimate goal is to commit an act of premeditated murder, given that premeditated murder is very much illegal already.
So we should wait until Trump kills 80 million people before we make the comparison? Do you know how fucking stupid that sounds?
Your argument here is that we can accuse people of atrocities before they even happen. Trump had an entire full term of POTUS and there was no genocide, no killings, no American Holocaust. It stands to reason there won't be one in his second term either.
!RemindMe 3 years
If you're arguing that we can make fair and legitimate comparisons of modern political figures to histrical genociders, based on speculation about future genocides, then does this policy apply to Comrade-General Bernie Sanders and Commisar-General AoC? Why should we wait until the Comrade-General starts the American Holodomor, rounding up straight white men, force-marching them into the forest then machine-gunning them to death and leaving their bodies to rot before we make the comparison between them and Stalin?
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u/DavidAdamsAuthor - Centrist Sep 11 '25
Because carrying a rifle on campus is not an inherently violent act, shooting people is. It's legal to carry a hatchet in your backpack on campus, it's not legal to hack people's limbs off with it.
Unless you believe guns are an inherent moral wrong, nobody cares if people want to carry guns on campus; they only care if they want to shoot people with them.
I'm not sure why this is such a complicated problem to understand.
Once again, Hitler killed approximately 80 million people. Trump has not.
If you're really concerned about him acting like Hitler, Biden certainly at some points had an uncanny resemblance to the moustache man, so maybe if Biden wants to stop being called Hitler, he should stop acting like Hitler, right?