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Suck for these people.

You mean like the millions of Americans in prison for low level drug crimes?

This happens all the time in America, it's just not brought up because it predominantly effects lower income non-white.

So no, I won't waste my empathy on this. If you don't want to be held accountable to other countries laws, don't leave the US.
It was actually brought up by advocates and both political parties.
 
I threw out a rough number, but let's see.

Feds say 45% of prisoners are for drug related offenses. [1]


Let's see, 1.25M prisoners total [2]


So no, not millions, I concede the point. But if we do add in parole it'll get above a million, not that's not in prison but close.

[1] https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offenses.jsp

[2]
“You mean like the millions of Americans in prison for low level drug crimes?”

At best that is flawed logic to conflate inmates in prison on drug distribution charges with low level drug crimes.

Don’t let facts undermine hyperbole.

Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
 
I’m packing for a quick fishing trip in the Quetico Provincial Park and thought of these fellas when I just found a couple of .308 cartridges in the bottom corner of my pack. Canada would not lock me up for 12 years of hard time if I had brought them with but they could give me a hefty fine and take my remote border crossing permit.
 
Reminds me of the time I emptied my elk rifle magazine after an out of state hunt and put the cartridges in my overnight toiletries kit for the two day drive home.

A couple weeks later I head to the Oakland airport for a weekend Steelhead fishing trip when I get pulled aside at the TSA x-ray. County deputy pulls out one of my cartridges and asks if I know what that is. I admitted I did and that it was from my elk hunt a couple weeks prior. He quizzed me on what caliber it was and where I was elk hunting. He let me go but for a minute I thought I was going to be downtown answering questions...

Lord knows how many pocket knives I've donated to TSA as well.
 
Another American tourist from Florida was arrested on Monday for having ammo in her luggage.
I don't get it, do these people live under a rock? With all the attention this has gotten how have they not heard of this?
 
the backpacks i usually take with me on flights have never even had ammo in them. but holy shit i still turn them inside out and shake em silly every time i'm about to fly.
 
Man, I hate the situation they’re in. T&C is off my travel list.

As always, the main thing I want (granted, foolishly) from people offering their opinions on it, be that HTers, politicians, news outlets, etc., is consistency. You can’t say one thing about a black lesbian basketball player with cannabis oil in Russia and flip all of a sudden when it’s white Christian men with ammo in Turks and Caicos. Whatever your position, maintain it and have the intellectual honesty and personal integrity to call it the same both ways. That’s the thing that drives me crazy.

These guys are paying the hefty tuition on the lesson for all of us in this one: triple check your bags when flying, especially when you’re going into another country. I hope they are reunited with their families soon. ☹️
 
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