Steven Saus [he/him] @StevenSaus@faithcollapsing.com

So fun watching the "small government" folks adding laws to fix a nonexistent voting problem while standing on the bodies of those killed by gun violence and insisting there's too many laws around gun ownership.

Fun fact: If you support voter laws that were previously used during the Jim Crow Era to suppress the Black vote, then yeah, you're supporting racism.

This effort comes after the city installed 30 cameras in the Twin Towers neighborhood to automatically read license plates. The readers were part of a pilot program that ran from April to July 2020.

The city also deployed ShotSpotter listening technology to detect gunshots in West Dayton neighborhoods earlier this year. The coalition argues that very few people were consulted before either system was installed.

MY NOTE: Of course it was in the poor neighborhoods.

https://www.wyso.org/news/2021-03-22/group-works-with-city-of-dayton-on-police-surveillance-tech-ordinance

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It should be harder to buy a gun than vote.

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