A thought experiment
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talkpoliticsNothing riles up the conservative base like this.
What if the Census asked about firearms ownership?
So imagine that you’re one of the families chosen to receive the US Census’ “Long Form” and, midway through the survey you come across a series of questions:
20: Are firearms present in your household?
20a: How many?
20b: Number of long guns?
20c: Number of hand guns?
20d: Number of semi-automatic firearms?
20e: Number of automatic firearms?
20f: Approximately how many rounds of ammunition are present in your home?
20g: Are all firearms in your household secured according to the best practices laid out by Project Child Safe?
This made me crack up "Would your concern rise to such a level that you might refuse to fill out the long form Census questionnaire or even lie on the form to protect your privacy?"
Doing such a concern fren!
I can just see 'ol Clem looking fearfully at the census form... dabbing sweat from his brow as his eyes dart back and forth from the paper to his gun safe.
Should he answer truthfully!? Will the census police come and investigate? Would they ever find out? Of course they would, them government folks... they have ways of finding out.
Hand trembling, he touches his #2 pencil to the paper. Unable to control his fear-induced tremors Clem presses too hard and the tip of the pencil snaps leaving an ugly scar on the pristine white form. "Sheeeeeet", he cries out as he clutches his pearls. Now they will know for sure! They will come for him! He just knows it. The census police will know! They probably already do.
But wait... what is that noise!? A nearly imperceptible rattle of the door handle. They’re already here!!!
The horror! The abject horror!!!!
What if the Census asked about firearms ownership?
So imagine that you’re one of the families chosen to receive the US Census’ “Long Form” and, midway through the survey you come across a series of questions:
20: Are firearms present in your household?
20a: How many?
20b: Number of long guns?
20c: Number of hand guns?
20d: Number of semi-automatic firearms?
20e: Number of automatic firearms?
20f: Approximately how many rounds of ammunition are present in your home?
20g: Are all firearms in your household secured according to the best practices laid out by Project Child Safe?
This made me crack up "Would your concern rise to such a level that you might refuse to fill out the long form Census questionnaire or even lie on the form to protect your privacy?"
Doing such a concern fren!
I can just see 'ol Clem looking fearfully at the census form... dabbing sweat from his brow as his eyes dart back and forth from the paper to his gun safe.
Should he answer truthfully!? Will the census police come and investigate? Would they ever find out? Of course they would, them government folks... they have ways of finding out.
Hand trembling, he touches his #2 pencil to the paper. Unable to control his fear-induced tremors Clem presses too hard and the tip of the pencil snaps leaving an ugly scar on the pristine white form. "Sheeeeeet", he cries out as he clutches his pearls. Now they will know for sure! They will come for him! He just knows it. The census police will know! They probably already do.
But wait... what is that noise!? A nearly imperceptible rattle of the door handle. They’re already here!!!
The horror! The abject horror!!!!
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Date: 11/7/19 13:03 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 11/7/19 15:36 (UTC)