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Comment by Rohansi

3 days ago

Scammers will manage to manipulate people into giving away all of their savings just fine no matter what restrictions are put in place. The excuse is just another "think of the children" to maintain control and profit.

People will murder people, too.

We don't have to make it trivially easy.

  • So your solution is to ban the sale of any kind of knife. Sucks that people can't really cook at home anymore, but do we have to make it trivially easy for murderers?

    • > So your solution is to ban the sale of any kind of knife.

      If you give a toddler a butcher's knife to play with and they get hurt, you'll likely get in trouble for child endangerment.

      Using my car requires it be registered, pass my state's safety standards, and that I possess a valid license and follow a wide variety of rules.

      Maybe a certain level of protection is, at times, acceptable?

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