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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i bet a lot of that would stop if said pregnant people open carry 18" machetes strapped to their thighs and fiddled with the handles a lot. i really wish it wouldn’t have to come to that tho.

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  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This could never happen where I live, the government decided to spend 13 million dollars on 30 something machete bins so that everyone, apart from murderers who use machetes (who won’t actually care about the amnesty), will be made to surrender their machetes.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i mean sharps containers are expensive tho. you wouldn’t want someone to accidentally cut themselves collecting the machete surrender bin and get hantavirus

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      • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I agree on that front, the engineering of these bins has gotta be a big factor in the cost, although there has been government and union corruption recently, which would’ve ballooned the cost a little, but I’m not sure by how much.

        what I don’t understand however is why they chose to do a machete amnesty program rather than anything else, such as improving rehabilitative justice, and removing the endless crime loophole caused by bailouts (which tbf is being acted on currently,) for example.

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