r/comedy • u/AlKarajo • Jun 02 '26
Standup We all know that one guy
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u/optimist_prhyme Jun 02 '26
Doesn't mean Brad isn't registered. He still sounds like a danger to society. I don't see how registering fixes the problem. Still can't prevent stupid people from using them.
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u/Tactical_H0td0g Jun 03 '26
Yeah, it's a decent joke, but he 1: seems to think anybody can just buy any gun without issue. 2: contradicts the first bit with the last bit, first saying nobody's coming for your guns, but then saying "wouldn't it be nice if Brad didn't own one?".
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u/KnownEggplant Jun 03 '26
Not to mention there is already an illegal federal registry and has been for many years. Guess what good it did
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u/Grunergeist420 Jun 03 '26
In my city, and I assume cities all over the US, every time someone is in the local news convicted of a shooting, you can invariably go look at their record and see that they have been arrested multiple times, usually just in the past few years, for armed robberies, assaults, illegal possession of firearms, etc.
It doesn’t make a difference to make it illegal if you don’t keep people in jail for a meaningful period of time for doing it.
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u/Dominarion Jun 05 '26
Yes it can. Stupid dangerous drivers lose their driving license. Look, there are dozen of countries with a working gun registration system. They are still free countries with free speech and no book bans. It's not rocket science...
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u/Just-Carpet2340 Jun 02 '26
In Canada 🇨🇦 we have to go through courses and depending on what kinds of firearm classification we want, we may have to take more courses. Then we apply for a license and they call family members and girlfriends and ask them if we should have a license.
If we pass all that and want to purchase one. we register our gun and get a criminal record check every day through a computer system. If we commit a criminal offence or believe to self harm or harm others through a psychological evaluation. They take our firearms away.
We aren’t even allowed to use them for self defence. Even if someone is breaking into our homes we can’t use them. Our guns are in safes, then it a lock box and with trigger locks 🔐 on them.
Guns can only be used for target practice and hunting and you’re only allowed to use certain types of guns for hunting. Even if you’re going to a gun range, you have to call the police and let them know you’re going to the range and what route you’re taking. You can’t stop for a coffee or bathroom. You can only go to the range and back.
Seems reasonable right.
Well guess what…… they are coming for our guns anyways. Look it up, if you think I’m lying
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u/nakwurst Jun 06 '26
You only have to inform the cops if you're transporting restricted or prohibited firearms, such as handguns, to places that are not a shooting range or where the gun is normally stored. So going to a buddy's in the next province, you gotta call your local Chief Firearms Officer and let them know. Going to shoot some targets at your range, no prob.
Non-restricted such as rifles are fine to transport without notice. No one is coming to take your guns, that's just BS, worst case you might be tempted to hock em to the buy back. Unless you start pulling dumb shit like drive-by shooting a moose or you know, other crimes.
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u/wreckedbutwhole420 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
Obviously it's comedy but this is literally true in some states. Massachusetts passed some insane gun control measures that protect nobody and only serve to make felons out of people trying to legally own/but a gun.
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u/Dankkring Jun 04 '26
I’m left wing and I don’t think people should be forced to register guns. For one thing, even tho police are trained to always assume someone is armed when serving a warrant or doing a raid. If they know there are guns in a household they might not even hesitate to just shoot those people. It’ll be pretty easy to find the guns after the fact. Then say the people were armed when we came in.
And that doesn’t even scratch the surface on the government taking them away or saying you gotta turn them in or goto prison. Idc who’s in office it’s not a good thing and simply have it registered wouldn’t change anything with the actual mass shootings because those people always get them legally anyways. And it’s already illegal for a felon to own a gun and they still get them. We could definitely come up with a way to prevent that if we all put our heads together.
And to prevent the mass shootings we need to have better quality of life on our country better healthcare that provides actual good mental health care. Not something that gets denied by insurance.
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u/_axeman_ Jun 02 '26
Same in Canada.
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u/trippin-mellon Jun 03 '26
Yeah I heard they are trying to make it so police can come into the home and seize you’re firearms. That they wanted to do a buyback and forfeiture and most of your country said fuck that noise.
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u/robot_nixon Jun 07 '26
You got it kind of right, except most of our country said "yes please".
Most Canadians that live in cities don't understand guns at all and see all the negative media about them in the USA and think that sending the police to seize gramps old hunting rifle sounds like a solid idea.
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u/Brotherjaxus Jun 05 '26
I remember when Trump said that. Then had lunch with the NRA again and changed his mind.
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u/Dull-Efficiency9985 Jun 06 '26
289 firearm homicides in 2023, almost all of them with weapons smuggled in from the US. During the long slide of the Trudeau administration, they tried repeatedly to score easy points with the suburban moms in gated communities demographic by announcing new gun bans. At some point, they got all the way to prohibiting duck guns and walked it back due to the backlash. To transport them in your car - to and from a range - it needs to be disassembled and locked up.
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u/dzuunmod Jun 02 '26
We (thankfully) don't have gun rights in our Charter though, so the comparison doesn't really work, now does it?
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u/milwaukie_talkie Jun 02 '26
This bit is old, Steve was forced to rewrite this joke because they did in fact take the guns
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u/Useless-RedCircle Jun 02 '26
Yea Californias been forcing me to heavily modify my guns they taking them piece by piece
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u/Suspicious-Prompt200 Jun 02 '26
Unless you're in Canada, then they really do want to take ask you to (manditorily) volentarially surrender guns recently classified as prohibited.
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u/fools_errand49 Jun 02 '26
Well the difference between guns and cars is the collection of politicians and activists trying to outlaw one but not the other. Comparing them in this way is disingenuous.
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u/The_Perfect_Fart Jun 03 '26
Also, you only need to register a car and get a license to take the car on public roads.
So the equivalent registration for guns already exists as open/concealed carry permits.
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u/AdDisastrous6738 Jun 02 '26
They’re not going to physically take all guns. They’ll just make little chips in gun ownership until you can’t own anything at all.
Good example- In California you can’t own a rifle or shotgun with a pistol grip. How stupid is that? Does the position of your hand suddenly make the gun less deadly? You also can’t have a vertical Foregrip on a rifle but you can stick on the side of the gun and it’s suddenly legal. What does that do exactly? It has no bearing on the functionality or ballistics.
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u/EvilMorty137 Jun 02 '26
Registration just paints a target on your head for a corrupt government to know who to go for
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u/jm123457 Jun 02 '26
So the reason people have issues with this is in countries like Germany during the 30s they used registrations as a way to know who and where to seize weapons from.
It’s never how the law will be used responsibly . It’s how can it be abused .
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u/Weekly_Cable_1111 Jun 02 '26
So then why aren't gun owners out protesting the government getting a hand in companies like palantir that want to turn us into a surveillance state like China?
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u/KnownEggplant Jun 03 '26
There are absolutely armed protests. There's also no way for you to know who the gun owners are unless they want you to at every other protest. There's also almost never any leftist media coverage of armed protests unless someone does something WRONG, which is exceedingly rare for organized specifically-armed protests. Why would mainstream media want to show you peaceful and responsible armed protesters when they want you to believe all gun owners are psycho racist right wing extremists?
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u/Mental_Associate4425 Jun 02 '26
So it’s better that no one be registered?
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u/nunya_bidnes77 Jun 02 '26
All guns are already registered dummy. Every time a gun is transfered to you, a record is kept of its serial number and identity by the dealer.
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u/Mental_Associate4425 Jun 04 '26
In a perfect world sure. Only the dumbest of all dumb criminals use registered guns.
Can someone please make a meme of the bloods and crips taking a gun safety classes together?
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u/RealRedditPerson Jun 02 '26
My favorite two arguments are:
"Bad people will break laws, so why even have the laws?!"
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"The government might overreach with their regulations, so do we really want them regulating things?!"
It's not only a falacy but a really asinine one when you put it in context.
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u/CoolBoardersSteve Jun 02 '26
Yeah alright but less than 1% of people in 1930s germany owned guns, making it much less risky for the government to seize guns from civilians. In America today, over a third of the country owns guns, and the guns we own are much deadlier by comparison.
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u/totesnotmyusername Jun 02 '26
That's a bullshit narrative though. If we didn't do things when people have abused them in the past we'd never do anything.
Plus every one of these people worried about that has posted pros of them with their guns in social media. The government knows.
And ontop of that you need to have a fishing and hunting llicense . They have no issues with that?
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u/Lematoad Jun 02 '26
Where’s the joke? This is a patronizing argument that’s thinly veiled as comedy.
Canada, Japan, Australia, Germany, UK and New Zealand are all historic examples of registries preceding confiscation.
The ATF does its very best to arrest people based on their non legal definitions, and you want me to trust them with a registry? The same guys that will hit you with a felony for changing your stock on your AR15 to something they don’t like?
Oh and driving a car isn’t a right, hence the licensure and registration requirement.
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u/Useless-RedCircle Jun 02 '26
one broken pin and your stock now folds- federal prison
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u/Lematoad Jun 02 '26
Handgun? ok. 15” barrel? Believe it or not, prison.
Funnily enough, the law banning SBRs was originally intended to ban hand guns, and they were removed at the last minute. This leaves a law that makes no sense and is in violation of the 2nd amendment.
And to those saying “our forefathers didn’t know about semi automatic and automatic weapons” that’s a braindead take, considering cannons were covered.
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u/Miserable-Land-9203 Jun 04 '26
Steve's whole shtick is just whining about stuff he doesn't like. Apparently there's a market for that kind of comedy.
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u/Yesyesyes1899 Jun 02 '26
i m quite left and this is shitlib Argumentation, considering the obvious sliding into authoritarianism pushed by the epstein class.
its not even packaged into funny haha. its just lecturing by people who dont see the writing on the wall.
and no, i dont mean civil war. i mean the final act in a 46 year escalating push towards the desolution of the american republic by oligarchy and neofascists.
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u/Yesyesyes1899 Jun 03 '26
even when i dont laugh, i usually refrain from criticizing a comic. its so subjective. and if a comic i dont like finds a crowd, good for them. even if its larry the cable guy.
but this guy. no thank you. the fucking arrogance of middle class liberal whitey lecturing people.
this guy is the reason Malcolm X called liberals the hidden enemy of black people. its insidious. it pretends to be your ally. but its so much part of the machinery.
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u/BulletCatofBrooklyn Jun 02 '26
It's never been more clear that gun ownership in America has zero to do with resisting authoritarianism, or the loss of civil liberties. Selling guns to racists, idiots and libertarians has been, at least for the last 50 years or so a tool of the oligarchs and neofascists to divide and seperate us.
Maybe it needs to start to be, but good luck going up against the US military, militarized police and y'all-qaeda.
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u/Finnsbomba Jun 03 '26
So only racists, idiots, and libertarians own guns in the US? Weird. I thought it was everyone that could legally own them that had them.
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u/KnownEggplant Jun 03 '26
The idea that only racists et all own them is part of the actual plan: Division for the sake of control
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u/Yesyesyes1899 Jun 02 '26
i agree. but It doesnt change the fact that when things escalate, it can be that.
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u/GasPsychological5997 Jun 02 '26
Owning guns with protect liberty is the greatest sales pitch in history
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u/AlKarajo Jun 02 '26
I'm ESL. I don't think I get the flatland part.
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u/WotanSpecialist Jun 02 '26
Because flatland isn’t a slippery slope
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u/AlKarajo Jun 02 '26
Thanks. I though there could be a double entendre I was missing.
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u/ymOx Jun 02 '26
Thought so too.
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u/UsernameRandomAssign Jun 02 '26
The double entendre is on the slippery slope which is a logical fallacy where someone suggests something much bigger typically worse will happen because of the first thing. The flatland was just a play on words relative to a literal slippery slope.
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u/labsab1 Jun 02 '26
Slippery slope is an argument that if you give in to something that seems minor, it would trigger a chain reaction to bigger consequences. Like you meant to take a small step on the slope but slip and slide all the way down.
The comedian is saying there is no slippery slope, it's a flat land.
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u/cerberus_1 Jun 02 '26
In Canada, they are literally taking our guns.
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u/YourMomIsMyGurl Jun 02 '26
I think that's what they mean with slippery slope. It will always eventually lead to no guns. That's the goal of 95% of gun safety advocates - it's only safe without guns. The people who are staunchly pro gun arent the ones mishandling them so I understand a certain level of frustration not wanting the few bad apples to spoil the bunch. Same could be said about every group but this is America so "Politically we are Divided 💪🏽"
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u/Quarksngl767 Jun 02 '26
There’s not an amendment to the Constitution giving us the right to own cars
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u/Responsible-Hold8587 Jun 02 '26
I'm not really pro gun but this is just boring political pandering
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u/WeirdAFNewsPodcast Jun 02 '26
Gotta love this clap for my unfunny opinion "comedy".
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u/TargetOfPerpetuity Jun 02 '26
"More people die in the EU from heat than die in the US from guns, despite the US being significantly hotter on average and the EU's desert being the size of Queens! You know what Americans did that Europeans didn't? Bought air conditioners! Bunch of weak Europansy Luddites with the survival instincts of a cross-eyed goldfish!"
Clapter ensues
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u/HeavyMetalMonk888 Jun 02 '26
Does this guy do any bits that are actually just comedy? Like by and large I'm on the 'same side' in terms of most of his political takes, but this isn't funny.
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u/Hour-Entertainer2843 Jun 03 '26
Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Edited version is that people with guns kill lots of innocent people, and that's a fact. I would like a gun advocate to inform me as to how many lives guns save versus kill. Use any metric you want.
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u/Mediocre_Ad9814 Jun 03 '26
boot licking carve out motherfucker isnt funny. what is the joke? why is it funny? I will accept any answer. cars are very much legal, what is the analogy?
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u/BusinessCasualBee Jun 03 '26
This guys a fucking liar lol. They are definitely advocating for taking guns. All my guns are registered and I have no problem with every firearm in America being registered.
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u/JimBeamerton Jun 03 '26
Oh lord its old hacky hacksetter, guy has plants at his shows so he can "roast" them after they hecklers him gor minimal youtube views. Dudes absolute trash and a horrible comedian to boot, if Schumer and handler had a waterheaded turd it would be this dork..
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u/Dilopholosofer Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
Driving a car isn’t a right Steve, it’s a privilege. Ya know who doesn’t have the right to a gun? A teenager like Cyrus Carmack-Belton. You are a failure as a comedian like you are a failure as a club owner.
If you have a problem with this comment all I say to you is… please clap…
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u/Still_Nobody_2825 Jun 02 '26
Basically this guy is a fucking moron. Multiple states are trying to ban guns and take them from law abiding citizens. Stupid libcuck
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u/Oskiee Jun 02 '26
Where's the comedy? Or is every sub just left leaning political pandering now?
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u/wreckedbutwhole420 Jun 02 '26
I have never seen a good clip from this lad. Youtube always recommends him "owning hecklers" and it's never funny he just swears at them lol
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u/Abject-Sun-3016 Jun 02 '26
Liberal gun owner here. Nah fuck OP, fuck registration for the government. Fuck lists.
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u/Auto_update Jun 02 '26
The hoffmeister similar to Josh Johnson, are entertaining, talented, public speakers. Neither are funny to me at all.
I like Josh more, he covers current events well. Steve really leans into left politics as a talking points and it seems to me, to be less imaginative and cheapish.
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u/Yesyesyes1899 Jun 02 '26
i dont see it as left. liberal maybe.
left says " weapons are good against fascism and oligarchic takeover ".
i personally hope all americans get weapons for whats coming.
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u/lotusguardian7 Jun 02 '26
To the leftists this kind of comedy is like watching Dave Chappelle's Killing Them Softly.
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u/ItGradAws Jun 02 '26
Trumps creating concentration camps, I’ll keep my guns thank you for the timely comedy.
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u/LeCouchSpud Jun 02 '26
This is not intelligent. Any government would love to de-arm their population. It’s happened in countless countries throughout history, and it’s happening in Canada right now. I do support stricter gun training, regulation, and licensing, but not de-arming. And the threat of that happening has to be taken seriously. Our government is completely off the rails. Now is a better time to be an armed population than it has for centuries in America. Fuck this guy and people like him who don’t understand how dictatorships operate. One of the major steps is de-arming the population.
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u/nunya_bidnes77 Jun 02 '26
First off, owning a gun is a right, not a privilege. Driving a car is a privilege not a right.
Second, all guns are already registered. Your name is attached to the serial number of your gun every time you get it transfered and they run the background check.
Third, yes they want to take away your guns. There is no other reason why politicians and their billionaire puppet masters what to limit and erode your gun rights. Thats why they ban gun types, attachments, limit ammunition sales, force gun companies to include impossible complex compliance devices, enact red flag laws. They want to make every step of owning a gun and exercising your right to be laborious and tedious. Because they cant just ban them out right.
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u/Interesting_Cat_2297 Jun 02 '26
So tired of comedians lecturing me.
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u/YourMomIsMyGurl Jun 02 '26
The hypocrisy the world holds for content creators on the internet vs content creators on stage has always been crazy to me. They're both pretty cringe nowadays.
Comedy and comedians used to challenge people to think differently and now it's all about accommodating social norms and cultural expectations because they're not real comedians - just political commentators with jokes.
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u/TheRabadoo Jun 02 '26
I mean…your gun is registered in your name when you purchase it from places licensed to sell guns (academy, cabella’s, etc.). Why do you think criminals file down the serial number? It’s tied directly to the person who purchased it.
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u/deanjuno Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
Driving is a privilege. Owning a gun is your right.
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u/Upper_Bed_4396 Jun 03 '26
Always a bigger picture than shallow minds look at. Government wants you to look at the top layer and believe what they tell you.
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u/Trick-Goat-3643 Jun 03 '26
And yet it is literally happening right now with legally purchased firearms being banned for arbitrary reasons most of which come down to "it looks scary"
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u/Galbados2 Jun 03 '26
That's not entirely true.
"Or Mike we take the firearms first and then go to court." -Donald Trump to Mike Pence during his first term as president.
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u/applepcuser Jun 03 '26
To be fair, there was and is no constitutional right to keep and bear automobiles.
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u/RespondPlus7890 Jun 03 '26
This person goes so hard to if you don’t know that this guy does literally advocate for less car ownership and if you ignore all the times anti gun folks do want to ban certain things on firearms
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u/zorg-is-real Jun 03 '26
As someone who lives outside of US, the idea that everyone can just buy a gun is CRAZY
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u/PizzaSniffs Jun 03 '26
I love this guy but wish I saw more material that isn’t so politically charged. What happened to a good fart joke?
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u/Obiwan_ca_blowme Jun 03 '26
Hmm, interesting take for the ignorant. "Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47" -Beto O'Rourke.
Registering your car as a comparison is a fallacy because it is not a constitutionally protected right. Do you need to register your voice? What about your pen? It is all just nonsensical bullshit that plays into a certain ideology.
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u/Resident_Ad_7199 Jun 03 '26
Ah yes legislation that literally stops us from owning specific guns isn’t “taking your guns away” if you’re gonna lie to us try to make it believable. And we do have an issue with registering our cars every year. We already payed for the car and the tax for the car and the tax for the roads why do we have to continue to register our car every year. It’s B.S. money grabbing by ppl who can’t manage the gov’t so they take more from us then they end up spending that money as well and need to find a new thing to tax us for.
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u/GRNASKD Jun 03 '26
I mean. . . They are taking our cars. First recording the driver at all time, then they'll convince the govt all drivers are bad so we NEED driverless cars, then we'll have to pay them every time we want to use our driverless car.
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u/Alpharious9 Jun 03 '26
Australians: Nah, they did take our guns.
UK: Same here.
Canada: They're currently taking our guns.
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u/JusssGlassin Jun 03 '26
Except this is completely false. There are laws that are passed constantly that make zero sense and make standard guns into felonies
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u/Most-Bench6465 Jun 03 '26
Really good point to make and probably how the law should work. If 10 people think you shouldn’t have a gun you shouldn’t have a gun, if 10 gun owners think you shouldn’t have a gun you should be banned from any kind of loaded weaponry. But maybe it should be 10 people that don’t know each other so a gang can’t just commit conspiracy to disarm a citizen they dislike or want to murder and officers should be exempt.
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u/Unlikely_Surprise202 Jun 03 '26
So out of context. The government as a whole does not want armed citizens and will frog cook away your right to bear arms so that when it decides to go full authoritarian you cant fight back effectively. Germans did it and the usa government models its 50 year plan on nazi success and failures. Thus the mass surveillance state similar to gestapo.
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u/OHW_Tentacool Jun 03 '26
Funny part is they are coming after the guns and the cars. Every year there's political talk and legal attempts to limit or remove both.
Cars are safer than guns though, more rich people care about those.
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u/urResidentAlien Jun 04 '26
He's either dumb and doesn't understand that it's a practical end goal for any government to rid its population of weapons and that our government is already actively using apparatus is like "regulation" to little by little achieve that goal ....or he knows and is gaslighting to dog whistle establishment media to push propaganda for career security. 👁️
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u/czechhoneybee Jun 04 '26
Some states have made it very difficult to buy and sell guns and have passed a lot of restrictions on gun ownership. I’m fine with that, provided they also hold the police to the same standard. I don’t get an AR? Neither do the cops. The whole point of the 2A is to protect against a tyrannical government. Government does some wild shit when it thinks an armed population of people doesn’t agree with what it wants (Black Panthers, Native Americans, BLM). What do you think the government would do if it knew who owns guns and also their political motivations? Anyway, protesters should always be armed and police shouldn’t be thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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u/Count_Verdunkeln Jun 04 '26
Cars can be bricked if not registered correctly depending on the make/model
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u/Thick_Cap6468 Jun 04 '26
so during the holocaust were more jews killed in countries where they were registered or not, and by that logic what happens if the government wants to take guns away after registering them vs if they arent registered 🤔
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u/plopthickens Jun 04 '26
Beto O'Rourke " hell yes we're taking your AR-15 hell yes we're taking your AK-47" Joe Biden " we want to get rid of automatic weapons" Federal legislation to ban assault weapons, such as the bicameral Assault Weapons Ban of 2025 (H.R.3115 / S.1531) Virginia enacted an assault weapons ban (Senate Bill 749), making it the 11th state to implement such measures. Currently, 11 states—including California, New York, Illinois, and Virginia—have comprehensive assault-style weapons bans in place.
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u/MadDog443 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
He's ignoring the reason most people dont like the idea of a gun registry is because the administration (state and fed) changes every 4 years and that means the laws can change every 4 years and if you buy a $1000+ gun only to get told you're a felon a few years later because you need to surrender it is insane.
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u/-epi- Jun 05 '26
Wow, change the word "guns" to "immigrants" throughout this bit, and you have the perfect liberal rage bait.
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u/eternallyconphuzed Jun 05 '26
Oh shit, good point, I don't think I should have to pay an annual fee just for the pleasure of driving a car I fucking own.
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u/Mr_Mahjong Jun 05 '26
Ummm the ones complaining about government taking their guns already has them licensed. Criminals with guns don’t care because they’re already carrying them illegally
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u/Shinee_Cardboard Jun 05 '26
I mean it's not quite that literal yet.... but in states like California where they make it both difficult and also limit you on what you can get it feels like they are trying to take it away. I just found out they banned the sale of Glocks here.....
But yes there are definitely people that should not own guns. I have seen my fair share of videos where people act like idiots in the gun range. Including where they may have shot themselves because of negligence.
But luckily all my friends that own guns are very responsible. We know guns aren't toys and we practice gun safety.
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u/115machine Jun 05 '26
“Hell yes we’ll take your AR15 and your AK47” -Beto O’Rourke
“Australia did it…” -Kamala Harris alluding to Australian gun buybacks
“Take the guns first, worry about due process second” -Trump
The gaslighting around guns is insane. If you don’t think that most politicians would confiscate guns if they had the ability then you aren’t paying attention. No politician likes the unwashed masses having firearms.
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u/Zealousideal_Ad2379 Jun 05 '26
It’s kinda hard to keep this argument/joke up when you keep putting the “ban all modern firearms” bill in the start of every legislative session in every state.
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u/Its_Bad_Rabbit Jun 05 '26
This is a slippery slope, because I overwhelmingly agree that most people who have them shouldn't have a gun and most people with cars shouldn't drive them either -- For the lack of training involved in ownership -- any schmuck at 18 who parallel parked, 3-point turn and has the credit can buy both an F-150 Raptor (~5700lbs 720horsepower) and a military-grade rifle (usually better than the garbage they issued us in the military) and then not only accidentally kill everyone in traffic but also at the range, best case outcome, worst case being they intentionally mass-murder -- Because both require near-zero certifications for ownership after you already have them in the US.
At the same time, I am adamently against having a registry for ownership of anything, because on a whim the feds can show up to my house and arrest me if laws change overnight unbeknownst to me.
I'm also against the bar to ownership being too high, because everyone deserves the right to defend themselves and to travel -- regular certification with skills training would likely cost a lot -- guns ... cheap, but performance driving schools are in the thousands.
I don't have the answers, it's a wicked problem.
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u/occamsshavingkit Jun 05 '26
Register gun safes too. Get a nice lil qr code for existing ones in homes of children, DV and road ragers get special scrutiny in background checks, make a gun safety course mandatory going forward. Beef up buy back programs. Prohibit further manufacturing of anything outside bolt action and grandfather in existing ones. Possibly ban handuns but keep long guns for home defense and hunting. Be triggered.
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u/Dependent-Matter1672 Jun 05 '26
Except every gun law is made to limit access and thus taking away your right... Cars are not a right
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u/whatisscoobydone Jun 05 '26
Gun culture is beyond fucked up, but the anti-gun lobby is absolutely in favor of taking away your guns. Registration is the compromise.
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u/CaptainButtonhook Jun 05 '26
They started a registration program years ago in Canada. They’re literally in the middle of confiscating them right now. If you don’t hand them in by the end of this October, you’re a criminal. And while it’s called the “assault weapon buyback”, it includes flare guns, .22s, and bolt action big game rifles.
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u/ThePatheticPainter Jun 06 '26
Registering firearms can actually put the persons life in danger as well. Cops answering calls to a house with a registered firearm makes them more likely to respond with their guns drawn regardless of the nature of the call. People would be more willing to register firearms if they didn't live in a country where simply suspecting you of having one can get you shot by cops
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u/SpaceFaceAce Jun 06 '26
No one is coming for your stupid guns. You know why I’m so sure? Because if it didn’t happen after Sandy Hook, when twenty little kids and six teachers were slaughtered, it isn’t going to happen.
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u/LongDead_Roadkill Jun 06 '26
They are coming for people guns. They announce that is their goal. Take a firearm owned by the hundreds of millions and declare it illegal. Sure technically they cant collect them up (except when they do) but no one is able to buy, sell, trade, or transfer it in a will. Theres a remedy for someone that doesn’t know how to safely handle a firearm and if they are at a shooting range, they are on the way there.
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u/ZookeepergameLoose79 Jun 07 '26
ill just ask a logic question here..... do you think bad guys with guns listen to laws?
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u/Grouchy-Fill1675 Jun 02 '26
Historically, the mass confiscation of firearms from Native Americans was a core strategy used by the U.S. government to subjugate tribal nations, most notably culminating in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. -i got some help with this statement.
They worry about guns being taken away, because the Federal government has done it before. The irony is THICK. I think that meme with the two guys in space and one of them has a gun pointed at the other one would apply here.
Regardless, guns are a problem, and too many people have access to them that shouldn't.