• Goodie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you follow that logic to its natural conclusion, you should never make anything illegal because it doesn’t work.

    Which is obviously going super great for America and its Gun problem.

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      1 year ago

      There’s a difference in what’s made illegal and peoples demand. There’s little demand for guns in the UK since they were made largely illegal for example which is why one gun was linked to 30 odd cases when found as they’re not flooding the black market. There’s a big demand for drugs and if they’re made illegal, cigarettes.

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        1 year ago

        The goal of banning a year of birth is to attempt to have your cake and eat it too, with this very problem in mind.

        Your born in 2010? You never get to smoke (bar illegally). Born in 09? Sure, go for it. Cancers got you bro.

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          1 year ago

          In new zealand they do the age restriction first and in a few jears a full ban. And i think that they banned it for the jear where the people where still underage. So it is more a way to “soften” the ban