what happens if they refuse to pay their fines
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Replying to @_Almaqah @studentactivism
Probably the same thing that happens to people that refuse to pay their taxes because they’re “sovereign citizens” or whatever.
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Replying to @mrhortywho @studentactivism
They get charged with crimes and sent to prison if found guilty. So there is jailing involved in Beto's plan even if it's not explicit
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Replying to @_Almaqah @mrhortywho
Very few people get sent to prison for tax evasion, or for refusing to pay parking tickets. Mostly they just badger you, and at worst dock your pay.
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Replying to @studentactivism @mrhortywho
Almaqah Retweeted Jesse Walker
Well if true for Beto's plan that would go to
@notjessewalker point of it being toothless. And of course you can lose your driver's license, etc for not paying parking tickets or other fines.https://twitter.com/notjessewalker/status/1172503614683844608 …Almaqah added,
Jesse Walker @notjessewalkerReplying to @_Almaqah @studentactivismEither (a) the authorities ignore it, and the mandate is toothless, or (b) the authorities try to enforce it, and Beto's anti-violence program winds up leading to more rather than less violence. (Probably a bit of both, depending on what part of the country you live in.)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @_Almaqah @studentactivism and
End of the day its giving the state more ways to punish people for something that won't actually reduce gun violence
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I'm not arguing it's a good law—I have no settled opinion on it. I'm just saying it's a law that could, if passed democratically, be implemented in the way that other laws have been in the past, without huge violent upheaval.
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When you're talking about a popular firearm, with literally millions of them in circulation, then the best comparison to O'Rourke's proposal would be the bans on widely used drugs. And I don't think enforcement of those laws has gone very nonviolently.
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"An amount and intensity of violence similar to that seen during Prohibition" is a much more defensible prediction than the one Tracey offered.
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I took "end of the American Republic" as Twitter hyperbole. But point taken.
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Of course it was Twitter hyperbole -- he knew that I wasn't literally predicting the immediate collapse of the American Republic if Beto implemented his plan. Angry gun owners clearly don't have the capacity to overthrow the US government.
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Replying to @mtracey @notjessewalker and
So what WERE you predicting? You said that such a law couldn't be implemented "peaceably." What's the level of backlash you're envisioning?
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Replying to @studentactivism @notjessewalker and
You yourself just predicted "an amount and intensity of violence similar to that seen during Prohibition" which itself is a prediction that the law couldn't be implemented "peaceably."
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