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A comment on Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody. Parent comment

Re:Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Ma... by King-Aaron on Friday July 08, 2022 @01:26AM (#32023625)
You're deeply wrong about that. Gun buybacks have worked and do work everywhere that they've been conducted.
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Re:Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Ma... by daenz on Friday July 08, 2022 @01:39AM (#32023704)
It's not a buyback since the government never owned it. It's coerced confiscation.
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Re:Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Ma... by King-Aaron on Friday July 08, 2022 @01:44AM (#32023743)
So if you sell your house, or sell your car, or sell a loaf of bread, is that also coerced confiscation?
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Re:Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Ma... by daenz on Friday July 08, 2022 @01:52AM (#32023786)
If the government says "we're taking your house for %x percent of the value" then yes, it is.

Is extremely disingenuous to suggest that a gun "buyback" is voluntary. You either do it or you're a felon.

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