LAWMAKERS PROPOSE SOCIAL MEDIA HATE SPEECH CHECKS BEFORE GUN PURCHASES
Lawmakers in New York have begun drafting legislation that would require potential gun owners to have the past three years of their social media reviewed before they were granted permission to own a firearm.
Eric Adams, the president of Brooklyn Borough, and state Senator Kevin Palmer are currently writing the proposed legislation, which would give law enforcement authorities the power to check up to three years of an individual’s social media accounts and internet search history before they are allowed to buy a gun, WCBS Newsradio 880 reported. One of the main aims is to identify any hate speech shared by the users, as the politicians noted that such offensive comments are generally only discovered after mass shootings occur.
“A three-year review of a social media profile would give an easy profile of a person who is not suitable to hold and possess a firearm,” Adams explained, according to the WCBS report.
“If the police department is reviewing a gang assault, a robbery, some type of shooting, they go and do a social media profile investigation,” the borough president pointed out.
Palmer and Adams insist that such legislation is needed to curb gun violence, despite inevitable opposition from gun lobbyists as well as some who may be concerned about free speech.
Adams also pointed to last weekend’s massacre at the Pittsburg Tree of Life Synagogue, in which 11 worshippers were killed and six others were injured. The attack was the deadliest to specifically target the Jewish community in U.S. history. The Brooklyn leader emphasized that the shooter’s social media accounts would have raised serious alarm bells if such checks had been in place. Under existing laws in Pennsylvania, which would not be impacted by a New York policy shift, all the shooter’s weapons were bought legally, according to police.
“There would have been a clear indicator of the shooter in the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh,” the Brooklyn politician said, according to Spectrum News NY 1. “The profile of a person who was mentally unstable of purchasing or possessing a firearm would have been flagged.”
Despite the claims of the powerful gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, and many politicians who often receive financial support from the organization, studies have consistently shown that stricter gun laws correlate with fewer firearm fatalities, CNBC reported earlier this year.
In fact, the rate of deaths by firearms in states where guns are only lightly regulated – such as Alabama, Alaska and Louisiana – is more than four times higher than those with some of the strictest laws, such as New York, Connecticut, Hawaii and Massachusetts.
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Jose Hill
Fucking disgusting
Just like gay ass canada, we no longer have freedom of speech
Elijah Lee
>You will have actual rights stripped from you for saying unfavorable or neutral things about the next all-female 80's franchise reboot.
You know I used to love cyberpunk dystopias until I started living in one.
Dominic Morales
>studies have consistently shown that stricter gun laws correlate with fewer firearm fatalities, CNBC reported earlier this year.
Ruh roh raggy. Gotta take down my essays unironically pushing for more mass shootings and praising mass shooters as heroes. It's a shame. In this world where everyone scrambles to the moral high ground its always fun to embrace the absolute moral low ground and relish in the absolute depravity. It's a troll to people that believe in binary morality.
Kevin Harris
Aside from facebook, who the fuck sticks their real name to social media? Sure as fuck don't have my full name on twitter, which I use almost exclusively to make racist and disparaging posts towards migrants and muslims.
Charles Carter
>he bought all his guns legally before the shooting >Wrote the stuff literally just before he went in how fucking gay, and they'll bring up the six hundred massacred in the synacaust to pass it
Ryan Brown
Please stop blaming the left for this shit, we have more to lose from these laws then you do and we have fuck all power anyway
Libs destroy everything with their obsession with safety
Wyatt Young
>Please stop blaming the left for this shit
Stop doing this shit.
Jonathan King
Pfft, you think they will rely on names? They'll be checking IP addresses and shit at least and more likely having your ISP log your traffic etc. They're not going to check if you've said nasty 'hate speech' by googling your name. The state has much better means available to it.
Also who the fuck has social media? Normalfags get out.
Austin Brown
If their backtrace shows you've ever been to Jow Forums they're probably going to flag you as an "alt right extremist" right off the bat.
Joshua Scott
>Please stop blaming the left for this shit
Sorry, but the Left have been and continue to be the standard bearers for “gun control” and “hate speech control”.
And they’re too stupid to realize this will come back to bite THEM on the ass.
Luke Robinson
>LAWMAKERS PROPOSE SOCIAL MEDIA HATE SPEECH CHECKS BEFORE GUN PURCHASES >PROPOSE so it's nothing
John Rodriguez
The democratic party aren't the left, they are liberals How can a political organisation that supports the status quo be of the left or right? They are by definition centrist
Grayson Johnson
>would require potential gun owners to have the past three years of their social media reviewed before they were granted permission to own a firearm.
And what happens if you don't have a Facebook, Twitter or some other social media account?
I'm guessing you'll also be banned from buying a gun, as the unelected faceless bureaucrats in control of this star chamber will simply claim you're lying...
