• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    On X, Kirk insisted, “Gun control, like vaccines and masks, is focused on making people feel ‘safe’ by taking freedoms away from others. Don’t fall for it.”

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      He’s right, just not about the right topics.

      Things like the TSA changes post 9/11 are primarily security theater, ineffective security requirements that make it seem like it makes you safer while just being a waste of time.

      Most of the changes in the Patriot Act removed citizen rights for “security” yet have resulted in very little else apart from removing those rights.