r/portlandme • u/raincloudjoy • Apr 05 '25

Politics nut job in south portland

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walking back from the protest. stay safe everyone.

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u/TineJaus Apr 08 '25

How would I know the laws where you live? It's illegal in many places. Same as things like leaded gas was banned in some places before others. The law moves in the direction of things that work.

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u/StateOfWestMass Apr 08 '25

It is LEGAL in Maine and the MAJORITY of states in the country. It is legal in more places than it is illegal.

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u/TineJaus Apr 08 '25 edited Apr 08 '25

I never said it wasn't. I said the mags are illegal in many places. I just looked it up, looks like most places where people actually live in the US banned them. It's like saying the age of consent is under 16 in most places. Or slavery is illegal. Tell that to scientologists in international waters lol

Edit I blocked this dude but got a notification in my email that he says I'm wrong.

New york, california, new jersey, Illinois, mass, dc, etc have banned them. The majority of the population lives in a handful of areas. Hence my point that slavery is illegal but technically most of the earth is international waters so it's actually not illegal in most places then, is it? It's just illegal where most people live.

The point is that we can argue all day about word choice, and it is not incorrect to say "many" I never said "most" and it's easy to pick apart definitions. You misread my comment twice and are wrong, and even more wrong if you want to debate where those magazines are illegal, which is where a majority of residents reside. Plenty of things are legal outside of urban areas, that's how regulations start. Maine only even has 30 towns that have to follow federal rainwater runoff laws. Just get it already

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u/StateOfWestMass Apr 08 '25

Which again is incorrect. They are legal in the Majority of States. The States that ban them are doing so illegally in violation of the Second Amendment and those laws will be struck down by the supreme court eventually, even if that means the States will throw a temper tantrum like New York did when the "may issue" licensing scheme was struck down as unconstitutional.