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Cleveland Voted to Kill Its Flock Camera Network. They Have REMAINED ON, With Police Still Using Them
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Idk, considering this is America and most peoples alternative would be a gun, lasers seem rather benign.
Considering this is America and most people don't actually own guns, your comment seems rather online
uh. i live in the bluest of states with the most centrist of liberal friends... and we all own guns. like. alot of them.
Your anecdote is meaningless when 2/3 of the country doesn't own a gun. Turns out you can't extrapolate a data point like that
Personally not something I would be bragging about but you do you I guess
So your argument is that unless a majority of Americans own guns, you're not even allowed to correlate America with guns at all? What a dumb argument.
Nobody ever said that the majority of Americans own guns, they said that guns seemed like a more American solution than 1W+ lasers that could easily fry a camera from a distance.
Unless you have the numbers to suggest that more people have those kinds of lasers than the 100M+ people who have guns, then your point is meaningless.
At the end of the day this was an unserious suggestion to fire guns at utility poles made in jest towards a country with constitutionally enshrined gun rights and an unhealthy gun culture. Why be this uselessly pedantic about gun ownership statistics that nobody even mentioned or challenged?
They literally said "most people" in their first comment but thanks for the essay