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Re:Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional R... by wool_gather on Thursday September 05, 2019 @11:06AM (#20887446)
We already have a fairly robust* process for deciding that someone's fundamental day-to-day freedom should be taken away -- i.e., for deciding to put them in prison. Is there any inherent reason we couldn't have a similar process for gun ownership?

*Not flawless, of course, but what is?

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Re:Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional R... by maxwell on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @03:50PM (#20943962)
If you're talking about the U.S. prison-industrial system, you answered your own question.

More people are imprisoned in the United States than were in the Soviet gulags or Nazi Germany.

More black people are in the prison/parole system than were enslaved before the passage of the 13th Amendment.

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