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A comment on New Zealand banning assault and semi-automatic rifles. Parent comment

Re:New Zealand banning assault and semi-automatic rifles by modest_sarcasm on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:00AM (#19451266)
Less safe from the average kind of psychopath, but more safe from the magnificent supreme leader kind of psychopath.
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Re:New Zealand banning assault and semi-automatic rifles by samfriedman on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:46AM (#19451646)
In that dichotomy I guess the question is: which type of psychopath is a more frequent & significant threat to the people? Frequent/significant is probably a trade-off in this case.
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Re:New Zealand banning assault and semi-automatic rifles by benjohnson on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:59AM (#19452392)
My government has made complex weaponry to instantly kill half of the world's population with one push of a button. For me, that's a huge part of the equation.
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