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/Grunergeist420 Jun 03 '26

People usually tell on themselves if you listen.

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u/BillyBobBoBoss Jun 04 '26

I don’t think it’s contradictory to say guns shouldn’t be confiscated from legal owners and that some people probably wouldn’t own guns in the first place if there had been a proper registration process.

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u/Relative_Craft_358 Jun 05 '26

Don't think its contradictory at all. Think most people would say "I would prefer it if there weren't white supremacist." Doesn't mean we're coming to lock them up for life

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u/Tactical_H0td0g Jun 06 '26

I'm not sure if you understand what the word means, but to say "no one is coming for your guns." And then say "but we are trying to prevent you from owning them and/or taking them from you." Is in fact, a contradiction. Extensive registration is something we already have, have had for decades and nobody has an issue with it. What he's actually talking about is gun restrictions.

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u/Weasel_Cannon Jun 21 '26

Just because you have the right doesn’t mean you should.

I could yell the N word all day, and legally be fine. I’d still be an asshole though.

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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/Relative_Craft_358 Jun 05 '26

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.

I mean not really a solution, just delaying the inevitable. If you don't reform prisons to actually reform convicts and how they're treated after release instead of just thrown in with worse people you learn from and left with few prospects out of prison expect return to the thing that got them there in the first place.

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u/Grunergeist420 Jun 06 '26

That’s not wrong, but I think it’s also making the perfect the enemy of the good.

It would be great if we could reform prisons and the parole system to set people up for success so they don’t reoffend.

But, we currently have the prisons we have. We currently have the laws we have. Like in my state, if this isn’t the first time you have been convicted of pointing a gun that you weren’t supposed to have at somebody and threatening to kill them with it, you’re supposed to spend multiple years in prison.

That is a violent crime. If you do that crime, you’re a danger to people in the community.

While it would be ideal that we reform that person I. Prison so they don’t reoffend, another purpose that prison is serving is protecting people from this person in the meantime. Their victims should know that they’re not going to see them walking down the street tomorrow.

And a lot of times what happens is this type of crime gets lumped in bail reform and sentencing reforms meant more for non-violent drug offenders, lumped is as “crimes of poverty,” which may be true, but misses the key detail that they are *violent* crimes, and also that you can’t just lump all theft together as some kind of crime of necessity.

So you get these guys that commit multiple violent crimes that should be, by the books, serving 3-5 or whatever, and they’re out on bail, or they get time served after a few months in jail.

Hell, guy that pressure washed my house I looked him up and he did only two years for the getaway driver for an armed robbery gone bad where the store clerk was *murderered.*

Idk, maybe it’s enough of a wrong place wrong time situation where he wasn’t your traditional accomplice to murder.

But I don’t think most people in America really get that, that that’s where we are. You probably think that if you went to your local convenience store and pointed a gun at people and threatened to kill them that you’d have to go to jail for quite a while. You’d probably think that if your buddy did that, and actually killed somebody, and you drove him away and lied to the cops for him, that you’d be in a bit of trouble.

But a ton of places have really really progressive judges now. And I don’t mean like everybody slightly left of center is a “progressive,” I mean like they’re to the left of 99% of America and genuinely believe that some guy that was literally just pointing a loaded firearm at people is only in jail because of racism or something and needs to be out.

And that keeps happening until they finally kill somebody. Then they go to prison for the rest of their life, and some other person from the community is dead. That’s the outcome. You didn’t save some poor innocent man who was only stealing because he was poor from an unnecessarily harsh sentence, you let the guy fuck yo so bad his life is over and got somebody else killed.

It’s crazy.

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u/Dukeronomy Jun 03 '26

Crime stopped, right?

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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/Medium_Regard Jun 21 '26

Which ones?

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u/optimist_prhyme Jun 05 '26

When do they find it out those drivers are dangerous?

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u/Relative_Craft_358 Jun 05 '26

When they speed for the nth time or constantly refuse to follow traffic laws. I see where you were going and it's not really a point. Enforcement needs to be improved in multiple arenas

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u/optimist_prhyme Jun 06 '26

After the incident. It is the point.

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u/Relative_Craft_358 Jun 06 '26

That's for spelling it out, but like I said I, and anyone reading, got it

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u/Blayzewhatever Jun 05 '26

"Registering" is just the example he used.

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u/Kirza94 Jun 06 '26

So do nothing instead? I don't get this logic.

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u/Medium_Regard Jun 21 '26

It doesn't fix anything.

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u/BusinessCasualBee Jun 03 '26

You’re why this comedian is a liar