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 …
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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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Replying to @notjessewalker @studentactivism and
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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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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Replying to @mtracey @notjessewalker and
Uh, no. I referred to that as a "more defensible" prediction than the one you offered. But if you don't want to explain what you meant, that's fine with me.
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If you regard it as "defensible" to predict that there would be a substantial outbreak of violence as a result of the plan being implemented, that is sufficiently explanatory of what I meant.
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Replying to @mtracey @notjessewalker and
Again, "more defensible" and "defensible" aren't the same thing. But why not just say what you meant instead of playing these games? You meant SOMETHING by the tweet, and you meant something when you doubled down on it and called those who took issue with it "insane." What?
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Angus Johnston Retweeted Angus Johnston
(My position on the risk of violence associated with Beto's gun plan is this, by the way.)https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1172511247197229056 …
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Angus JohnstonVerified account @studentactivismThe threat of an increase in right-wing political violence in the next few years is very real. We should be worried about that, and working to prevent it. But Beto's gun plan isn't why we should be worried, and the scale of some of the catastrophizing about it is off the charts.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - 1 more reply
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