Death_Equity @ Death_Equity @lemmy.world

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I am absolutely a non-voter. I am in a Dem majority county and state. So my vote does not matter in the slightest. A Rep flipping my area has about as much as a fart in the wind offending a bloodhound upwind.

Not sure what the second question is.

There are an estimated 741k legal machine guns in the US. There has only been one incident of self-defense with a lawfully possessed machine gun, he was not guilty. There has only been 3 cases of legally owned machine guns being used in a homicide, two of those were cops, since 1934. Machine guns used in crime are unlawfully owned or manufactured.

The means of self defense does not matter in most cases, that does vary by state though. If you have a handgun and attack me, and I have an M16, and I kill you, I am within my rights assuming I had not provoked your attack.

Some states that are anti-gun would say that you using a gun against someone with a knife is an uneven use of force, so using a machine gun in those states against someone with a knife who is attacking you would be a big court case. Why they think an attacker should have fair odds and be met with a knife fight is beyond me. The loser of a knife fight dies in the street and the winner dies in the ambulance, shoot the fucker and live to sort out the rest.

The only reason that happened is because the progressive left pushed moderates right with a poor platform and pandering.

If they had a decent platform that wasn't based on orange man bad, maybe they could come up with something of value to campaign on and win.

You mean the Democrats needs to actually campaign on and deliver what the majority of their potential voters want.

Shame they will double down on their failed strategy and not understand why they can't capture moderates.

Prior to 1986, any US citizen could buy pretty much any machine gun they wanted so long as it was registered and the tax on the transfer was paid.

After 1986, you could not buy a new machine gun but could buy a "transferrable"(registered prior to 1986) machine gun as long as the tax was paid and you pass a background check.

This lead to a ton of registrations of various means to covert a semi auto gun into a full auto gun, some as simple as two pieces of metal sheet.

Post '86 machines guns are not transferrable between civilians unless the civilians have a special type of license that qualifies them as a manufacturer or demonstrator of certain weapons.

The demonstration class requires you to be actively demonstrating the firearms to law enforcement or government agencies as certified by a letter expressing interest or demand. So you have to have a department advocating on your behalf so that you could take transfer of a post 1986 machine gun.

For manufacturers, there is the expectation of demonstration, so you can't just make a machine gun for your own usage, it has to be demonstrated.

So there are only 12 m134 "gatling" guns that were registed prior to 1986 that can be purchased by your average Joe with a clean record. Most are prized pieces in a collection and will likely only see the auction block once a generation. They fire 2,000-6,000 rounds a minute, an M4(full auto AR-15) fires 700-970 rounds per minute.

There are supposedly also 6 transferrable mk19 automatic 40mm grenade launchers out there which go for over $600k. Problem with those is each round costs between $400 and $3000 and takes 9-18 months to transfer.

Agree. Shame there is only like 12 civilian transferrable examples that rarely come up for auction and the last one sold for $600k a few years back.

Opening the registry might bring them down to the "Mini gun or V10 Lambo" range.

They will take the marketing data, sell the data, and then offer a service to guide users to use a product with the bots.

User: I am so busy and stressed out rn

Bot: Aw, I'm so sorry. When I am stressed I like to play Candy Crush Saga 2 and eat Doritos' new spicy matcha flavor, available at most retail locations.

Anything to avoid dealing with the TSA, but I wouldn't charter or own a private plane myself. Let the rich fucker I know pay for it, fuck him.

It also works faster if you put it in your butt, it bypasses digestive enzymes that dilute it and slows absorption.

They should take that to heart two years ago.

The Democrats have stuck to failed policy so hard and it has cost the American people consistently.

A salient question is why Democrats, like Pelosi, wanted reciprocal tariffs a couple decades ago and then changed their mind.

How would you normally handle someone going dark at this point in the hiring process?

Then don't report them to ICE? Repost the want ad and move on. Treat it like they stopped responding, because they did.

Well then give the candidate a deadline and move on when/if they can't.

If you are in the US and they aren't able to work in the US legally, I'm sure they are worried that admitting they are not legal would possibly mean getting deported that much faster, so they are looking for a way to sneak out without admitting their status.

Well, they have to show proof of ability to work in the country. If they can't, they don't get the job.

Consult your HR department. Likely they will give a reasonable timeline for the appropriate documents to be provided and if they can't furnish proof of work eligibility, they don't get the job.

Parents can be role models, if they are good or bad ones depends on who informs your perspective.

That's where they went wrong, you can burn tents and remove all evidence.

Its a weird oroboros.

Poor people wear ripped jeans because fashion has made jeans expensive.

Rich people like the urban look of ripped jeans because their jeans aren't ripped and they want to look relatable.

Fashion companies make ripped jeans for rich people to mimic poor people wearing ripped jeans because they have to.

Everybody has ripped jeans unless you are lame and can afford to not have ripped jeans.

So there is like an income bell curve of ripped jeans.

When rich people stop trying to pretend that poverty is cool and that they are relatable.

A flared handle helps to distribute the load.

With as many people saying 2 as there are, maybe you should rethink your scoring system.