• w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    This sounds like an attempt to prevent black people from owning guns, in the same way a marijuana conviction has kept them from owning dispensaries.

    I know white people smoke pot, but they don’t usually try to make laws to keep white people down in the same way.

    • AlDente@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      You are exactly right in how this law has been used. However, this case is looking to overturn that and set a precidedent for allowing marijuana users to own guns.

    • tomenzgg@midwest.social
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      6 hours ago

      I’m inclined to entirely agree though the abject hypocrisy (I know, par for the course of conservatives) will be through the roof if the individuals who staked their entire personality on “we can’t restrain gun ownership in any remote way because the plain-text of the constitution” find pot usage to be the only acceptable background check.