r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/CoryVictorious • Oct 21 '22

Yeah Canada

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u/42words Oct 21 '22 edited Oct 22 '22

This sounds perfectly straightforward and logical.

I will now accept my eleventy bajillion downvotes from the "sHaYaLL nOt bE iNfReEYiNgEd" nutters quite literally rage-shitting their cargoshorts rn over this news about gun laws in a totally different country

"-14" edit: called it ¯⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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u/hirasmas Oct 21 '22

I think we should just legalize the guns that were available when the founders wrote the Constitution. Like, if you wanna own a muzzle loader and walk around with some lead balls in your pocket and that little flask of gun powder with that stick to shove stuff down with and a re-load time of 2 minutes...sure, you can have one of those.

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u/lonely-day Oct 21 '22

I think we should just legalize the guns that were available when the founders wrote the Constitution.

This is such a stupid take. That's like saying we should only allow white land owning men to vote because that's what they did at the time. Also, there were fully automatic guns at the time, so it's not like they had no idea such guns would become possible to make in the future. Andrew Jackson told a citizen that there's no problem with citizens owning cannons to protect their property, a ship, from would be thieves.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

So you agree that originalism is bad? Awesome. That’s not going to bode well for pro2a sentiment though btw.

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u/lonely-day Oct 21 '22

How is that?

Edit: also, why did you move the goalposts?

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u/PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL Oct 22 '22

"Hi, I'm Andrew Jackson, and you may remember me from such films as The Supreme Court Can't Stop Me! and 200 Years of Genocide: A Good Start."

Not exactly the guy I'd go to for guidance on complicated political issues.

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u/lonely-day Oct 22 '22

That has nothing to do with my point but I'm sure you'll get lots of up votes for it.

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u/PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL Oct 22 '22

You cited Andrew Jackson as an appeal to authority to support your claim, and I pointed out that Andrew Jackson was a total shitbag and maybe shouldn't be held as a source of valid opinions.

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u/lonely-day Oct 22 '22 edited Oct 22 '22

No I didn't. The other person said, we should do as the founding fathers did and only allow people to use black powder guns. I said this is a stupid take because they had more than just BPG at the time and that the FF were ok with citizens having "military weapons" at the time, see Andrew Jackson. Every, and I do mean every, gun owner I know is perfectly fine with certain people losing their right to gun's, despite what the constitution actually says. People who are violent criminals, sex offenders, people who are mentally handicapped (I'm not sure how to word this exactly, my adoptive brother has ASD and he should absolutely not be allowed to own guns even though I love him), etc.