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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

fuck that, its not hard to check your luggage before traveling.

Stop throwing the weight of the US government behind trying to protect assholes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I travel a lot, both with and without guns. And ammo has a way of ending up in the weirdest little folds of your backpack and clothes.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Sounds like ammo should be handled carefully

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Okay, So good on you for admitting you are not capable of keeping track of your shit.

US government still shouldnt be stepping in to protect you from your flagrant disregard for competency.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I live in a socialist haven, would never move to a third world country.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If that's the case you shouldn't be trusted with guns and ammo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never said I've lost my ammo or been stopped at the security checkpoint.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I never said that too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't sound like a very smart person.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You sound like a judgemental cunt

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dumb and tactless. The classic gun-nut combo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You just keep reinforcing the stereotype

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why you should treat guns and ammo with care. Have you never learned to count?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're funny. I shot tens of thousands of rounds every month, so no, I do not count individual rounds.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The German army shoots more than you do every month, and they do count individual rounds.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yep we figured that out after your first remark.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I travel with and without. I have bags specifically for firearms and ammo. That way when I travel somewhere that having just one round of 22lr might be an issue I use a bag that never had my firearm stuff. It eliminates the uncertainty.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I agree they're stupid, but these aren't people with malicious intent, and you want them to spend 10 years in prison? What do you think this solves?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I mean, all they had to do was take the least amount of effort possible to ensure their luggage was clean.

If they couldnt muster the give a fuck to do that, and intentionally went to a country that they know has these laws...Then why should I muster enough of a fuck to wring my hands desperately over the situation their own lack of care and concern created?

i think this solves the problem of idiots and assholes thinking they can flout rules and get away with it, regardless of its malicious or willful incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No one is asking you to care about them.

The question is whether or not you honestly think sending these people to prison for 10 years makes any sense. It's the same thing when some poor black kid gets caught with some weed and goes to jail. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it, and it's easy to point at their actions and say they were "idiots" for doing drugs and carrying it around them, and that they were "flouting the rules" by having a controlled substance. But I also know an injustice when I see one.

And there is precisely zero indication that these people are "flouting the rules." This would actually more likely apply more to the kid with some pot, because they know it's against the law and they likely know they have it on them. Why would you bring a handful of ammo into a country on vacation with no gun or anything? Hell, even if you had a gun, a few rounds isn't going to do much.

You're trying to paint it in the worst possible light. Slow down, take a breath, and think about this rationally and objectively for a second. Does this really solve a problem? Is this a good thing for our society? At least one of these people is a parent, do you really think it's great they lose their parent for 10+ years because of two bullets accidentally left in a bag? I just can't fathom how anyone sees any justice in this. There's no requirement that you think so vengefully.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It doesn't matter who thinks what. There's a law and it was broken, off you go to jail.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So law and morality are the same?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't search your luggage? Straight to gulag!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How many years have you taken yoga to be able to stretch and twist like that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ive travelled over i ternational borders with a dime bag in my luggage that i didnt even know was there until weeks after i got home. Dont be obtuse, there are lots of compartments in luggage whrre something as small as a bullet can hide even if you check the bag. Who the fuck gives a full cavity search to their luggage everyrime they use it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"I'm an incompetent, careless and entitled asshole, so obviously I'm going to argue real hard for these other incompetent, careless, entitled assholes so I dont have to be held accountable for my own actions!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

look man just because you're apparently a junkie fuckup who can't control his sensitive items does NOT mean the rest of the world's standards should be dropped to accommodate your idiocy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

its crazy how these dumbasses keep tattling on themselves like it somehow justifies this shit, isnt it?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It keeps complete morons off the streets and out of reach of firearms.

Because people who completely lack the necessary care and disciplin should not be armed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You honestly believe that over a decade in prison is a good punishment for this type of accident? We are talking about it possibly resulting in kids being without their parents for the bulk of their childhood. Do you really think society is better off if that happens?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The punishment is first and formost for being terminally stupid. It is high time to stop cuddling the idiots. They broke the law, they should serve. Or do you think that law is just a joke?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why do you feel people need to spend 10 years in jail for being stupid? And no I don't think the law is a joke, I think this one is very unjust.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

stop cuddling the idiots everyone!! They’re getting far to warm and cozy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

you and I both know they won't spend a decade in the clink. IF they get sentenced then the state dept will go to work and these jackasses will pay some kind of fine.

Don't want to go to a jail in a foreign country? Don't break their fucking laws. It's really quite simple. And each and every one of these idiots admitted to their crime. Not a single one is innocent.

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