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sdhs-rationalist:

socialjusticemunchkin:

ozymandias271:

a surprising number of Democrats seem to be getting the wrong answer to the question “should Martin Luther King Jr. have been allowed to buy a gun?”

I love this heuristic. If your gun control scheme would render MLK unable to get a gun, what it is is a shitty gun control scheme. Now we just need to find a way to coordinate the mass scorning of every democrat who ever suggests a gun control scheme that fails the MLK test.

(And non-democrats too, let’s not discriminate unwarrantedly, but instead let reality do the discrimination for us at least until republicans start being less about the Second Amendment and more about the “Let’s bully black people some more” thing.)

wait wait wait wait wait wait

any gun control scheme that fails this specific edge case regardless of the reason deserves “mass scorning”

is that what you are saying?

I want to make sure I am not misunderstanding this suggestion.

Are you, @socialjusticemunchkin and by proxy @ozymandias271 (Though ozy has not stated the necessity for scorn and the degree of wrongness of the answer), by the above statement, in fact intending to say that any gun control scheme that fails to give MLK (understood to mean MLK in his current state, if you want to retcon MLK to have firearms training then do so explicitly, if he did already then source your evidence) the ability to purchase a firearm is A) shitty and B) deserving of mass scorn?

Any scheme that would render MLK specifically unable to get firearms, due to reasons that are political instead of competency-related, is what I’m saying. If he had eg. some health issue that would’ve made him unable to shoot straight it is one thing, but stuff that relies on “the government has decided this person is a bad person” is another. And a reasonable degree of training in safe handling etc. would obviously be retconned into the question, as it’s intended to be about the difference between MLK and some random guy somewhere.

2 weeks ago · tagged #guns cw · 65 notes · source: ozymandias271 · .permalink

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    Is this about the “investigated by the FBI regardless of the outcome of the investigation” thing? Because I’ll also note...
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    Ok. With this clarification in mind my major objections(i.e. ones that do not revolve around implementation...
  11. socialjusticemunchkin reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:
    Some further clarification: because the government is evil, it could still possibly find a way to prevent MLK from...
  12. speakertoyesterday reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:
    MLK was protected by armed bodyguards a lot of the time. Visitors to his home have described it as an arsenal.
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    Will the mass scoring be different from SJ callout culture, and if so, how?
  14. rendakuenthusiast reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:
    I believe that MLK did in fact own guns for self defense.
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