• xthexder@l.sw0.com
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    6 months ago

    "It is unacceptable that it is possible to buy tools that help car theft on major online shopping platforms.”

    I can buy a hammer and screwdriver online, and those could be used for car theft. Does that make those also unacceptable?

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      6 months ago

      They’re also really good at murder, a much more serious crime.

      While we’re at it let’s just ban all metal cutlery, just to be on the safe side.

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      6 months ago

      I think it’s a matter of convenience, which I don’t find a remotely fringe argument to make. Just like in the case of guns- I can murder someone with a screwdriver too, but if I have an AR-15 I can murder a hundred times more people in the same span of time, with much less effort.

      • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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        6 months ago

        I can buy lockpicks, slimjims, and all sorts of other locksmith tools made specifically to gain access to cars quickly and easily. And I could have been doing so for way, way longer than the Flipper has existed.