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East Tennessee's Tim Burchett, a Republican, said he believes that aliens must have the technological capacity to "turn us into a charcoal briquette".

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[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, there's no absolute protection but it does help to put up barriers. I watch a lot of true crime, and a ton of spree killers and gun killers are just lazy or stupid and they would actually be deterred at certain points. Others, well, nothing's gonna stop them but getting caught. Of course, a guy who gets caught on his first try doesn't get to become a serial killer at least.

Come to think of it, if a guy gets caught violating a gun control law... then he doesn't even get to actually become a killer, does he? I've seen them run down a couple of cases including one where the Alabama Department of Investigation (I think?) GAVE BACK a gun to a guy who was under a protection order that in that state actually did restrict him from having a firearm. A law against domestic abusers having firearms would mean that a lot of them could be off the streets before they could kill their victims.