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Comment by seanmcdirmid

8 months ago

> Do you think if children were going to be harmed in The USA then maybe the federal government should introduce a ban of that kind of shit federally?

I'm not sure the federal government can. There are powers reserved for states that the federal government can't circumvent. They have supremacy, but the jurisdiction of that supremacy is restricted.

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