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  • A valid concern.

    A gun registry wouldn’t list if people are trans or not though. A list of trans people you would get through healthcare and insurance. Changes of a legal name is probably registered somewhere as well. So they would need to cross reference.

    If they want to go after trans people individually, they would go for leaders and activists first. They are easily found on social media nowadays. Then go after organized groups.

    An individual armed trans person is much less of a concern, than organized groups armed or not.



  • Very true. People have all kinds of stuff they don’t actually need, but just like having.

    I’m not sure the number of guns someone owns makes a difference regarding public safety and gun crime.

    I support stricter gun laws in the US, registered ownership, some kind of license, sales only through licenses dealers, restricted advertising, waiting times, safe storage requirements, etc. A lot of gun regulations in the US are not very effective and more symbolic. Bothering legal owners more doesn’t necessarily help with violent crimes using firearms.

    Fundamentally the main reasons for gun crime are social and can improved without changing gun regulations.



  • Besides security professionals and sports shooters, hunters are a pretty big group of gun owners. If you live in the countryside and own some land, you might want a gun for pest control i.e. hunting.

    I also think there’s a big difference between carrying and using a gun on your own property and carrying it in public. If you live somewhere far away from any police, having a means to self defense als has some merit.

    Are you from Czechia? Australia of course.




  • It makes a lot of sense to own more than one gun. For self defense you might own one shotgun, one handgun, and a smaller handgun for concealed carry. If you’re a hunter, you likely want two rifles in different calibers, a shotgun, and a hand gun. In addition to that you might have an old gun laying around or grandpa’s old hunting gun, a range toy, some historic gun you like for some reason. Sport target shooters will have a few different guns, depending on what disciplines they shoot. Then there are also more serious collectors who might have dozens or hundreds of different firearms.


  • It’s not necessarily cheaper overall either.

    If a million people wash their containers at home that uses water and energy, and time of course. Transporting empty containers to be refilled uses energy as well.

    Refilling your small containers at the supermarket takes time as well. Additional staff is needed to manage, observe, and help with the refilling.

    The big containers the shop gets also has to be returned and refilled. The washing and transport also costs water, energy, and time.

    It’s not clear refilling at the shop can even be cheaper, use less water and energy overall. A lot of small scale manual labor is introduced. Meaning economies of scale and automation isn’t used.

    A more sensible solution would be to have standardized reusable containers. The end customer can return the empty container at the shop, it gets sent back to the factory where they are washed and refilled. Then you can skip the extra refill step at the shop completely.

    That said reusable packaging isn’t always going to be more environmentally friendly or cheaper. Transport and cleaning isn’t free, neither is the extra labor involved.

    There’s a lot of cargo culting going on in this area. For example replacing plastic with paper. Paper uses multiple times the water and energy to produce compared to plastic. To make paper you need to cut down trees. If you want comparable strength, you need heavier paper than plastic. Meaning you also need to transport more weight around. The biggest downside of plastic is it ending up in the environment. If you have a well functioning waste disposal, waste incineration, and recycling system, this is mitigated up to a certain extent.