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    2 months ago

    “What about black-on-black crime?”

    “You mean they’ve been segregated into racial enclaves where they’ve been artificially impoverished for a few generations now, so the criminals have more access to other black people than any white people?”

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        2 months ago

        The suicide thing really bothers me. “They would have committed suicide anyway” is what I have heard, which is incredibly callous and impossible to know. Certainly having something that can kill you instantly without any sort of preparation makes it a hell of a lot easier to act on suicidal impulses.

        (I am indifferent about guns overall.)