• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh you so so do not want to try gun running from Mexico to the US. Anyone that would try it is too stupid to live. The border guards will be very polite to you as they put you down with assault rifles. You know if you are lucky. If the cartels don’t catch you instead and hack off body parts. Or the regular police there don’t put you in a jail for 8 years without a trial.

    Don’t fuck with the Mexican border. You check every bag you have ten times to make sure you don’t even have something that can even resemble a knife. Go read up on what happened to the American citizen who they found a spent bullet casing in his truck.

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      1 year ago

      Do you honestly think that it’s impossible to smuggle stuff across the border, or that smuggling only happens at border crossing checkpoints?

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        1 year ago

        I honestly think it would be hilarious for me to watch you attempt it. Please livestream it. Please please try this. Think about how owned I will be.

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          1 year ago

          You are a giant idiot. I agree with you on the need for gun control bit, but all your arguments are extremely flawed. Like this one you’ve posted here. Sure, jimbob might struggle to get a gun across, but there is still gonna be a shitload of them getting across. It is literally the world’s busiest border. Even a country with a hard on for authority like the US struggles to catch anywhere near close to everything that illegally crosses that border. And your asbestos argument? That’s shit house too. For one, it’s not even banned in most of the world (including the US). Two, there’s still a problem with people trying to import products with it in into countries that have banned it. And three, it’s irrelevant because the govts that have banned it have made alternatives readily available that are nearly as effective, thus giving the public legal alternatives. Why is that important? Because let’s look at what happened when govts don’t provide alternatives. Like when the US banned alcohol (which is a ban that still exists in some countries today). Or the war on drugs. Or the illegal trade of exotic animals. They are booming markets. Sure, be against all the horseshit we see come out of the US in regards to gun crime and advocate for tighter gun control, but at least try to be intelligent about it. Your whataboutism is not only wrong, it’s a really dumb way to try and prove a point, even if you were right.