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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can see it is an American post because there is no option of "total ban"

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What country has a “total” ban on firearms?

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Total ban for civilians within population centres, where there is nothing to shoot save people, is totally normal everywhere except Burgerland.

[–] sobriquet@aussie.zone 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That is definitely not true. Even in Australia, which has some of the strictest gun laws, we don’t have a “total ban”. If you have a legitimate reason to have a firearm, you can get a license. And yes, legitimate reasons can include “guns are fun” - it just means that if that is your reason, the gun is only used at a gun club, and you can’t walk around the streets with it.

Edit: reading your other posts, it seems you mean “carried in population centres”. Stored and/or used in controlled environments within population centres, and even open carried by appropriately licences individuals (eg police) is still a far cry from a “total ban”.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

The question was specific with regards to a "private city", thus you can infer from context that the totality of "total" is limited to cities. This is also the reason I abstracted and specified it to mean population centres, because bringing guns to festivals is just as stupid and illegal most places.

I get the urge to be pedantic, but why be so after someone else has already pointed it out and I have answered them?

[–] GbyBE@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't go as far as saying a total van is totally normal everywhere else, because I don't know many countries with such a ban. I don't know many other countries with concealed or open carry laws, so that's certainly a difference.

Countries like Switzerland and Germany prove that private gun ownership can go hand in hand with regulation and enforcement, and not cause as many casualties as in the US.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sure, not total in the sense that gun ownership is illegal, but you if you take a fucking gun to a city you will have your license revoked and probably go to prison. That is unless the gun was kept locked down, dismantled and securely separate from the ammunition in your trunk.

The point is to remove guns from people and places where they can do the most harm, like in a population centre. They have no reason to be there, and most of the world recognizes this.

[–] Arfman@aussie.zone 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What the hell is a "private city"?

[–] halvar@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fascinating. Sounds like a shit place to live and and an awesome place to visit.

[–] applewithacape@feddit.de 0 points 3 months ago

I think they already tore it down.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Love Washington crying over the beautiful sight!