[CW: Live local coverage ( has graphic images but blurred)]

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https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/live/

Possible suspect has been identified.

Suspect fled Brooklyn subway wearing construction vest, gas mask; at least 5 shot, 13 injured

https://twitter.com/1010WINS/status/1513879910783279121

[CW: Racism/Mental Illness] Frank R. James ID’d as person of interest in Brooklyn subway shooting, made threatening online rants

https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/frank-r-james-idd-as-person-of-interest-in-brooklyn-subway-shooting/

  • Kanna [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    It takes everything in me to not be vehemently anti-gun after growing up in this country and seeing this slowly start happening all the time. I'm happy I live in a state that makes it harder to get guns. Is that the right analysis? Probably not, but it's how I feel safe specifically in this country

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Statistics aren't very reassuring, but the rate of homicides has been declining steadily for decades.

      • Kanna [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I guess it does a bit, but I'm at the point where I don't even want to see a gun irl. I'll have to figure out those brainworms one day, but for now they just scare me

        • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          When the news says that they usually don't point out that it's gone down by around 50% since the 90s, and the more fear mongering they engender the easier it is to justify wildly inflated police budgets.

          • grisbajskulor [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Totally correct. But it's important to note that the 'slight' rise has definitely been felt. It's important to remember it's not JUST fear-mongering, which I think certain defund-the-police discussions miss. The working class is bearing the brunt of the rise in crime. I think the Eric Adams election was telling.

            Obviously defund the police and ACAB, but the majority of 2020 BLM messaging missed on this IMO.

        • BigAssBlueBug [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          It decreased steadily from the 90s and increased around 2016 and 2020 but not nearly high up as it was. I think. It's been a while since I looked at stats.

    • happysisyphus [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It's good to be anti-gun imo. There's no violent revolution happening now or anytime soon, but people are dying

      • emizeko [they/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        people are dying

        if only people were this upset about social murder

        • happysisyphus [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          People in power aren't truly upset about either. We got our work cut out for us

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        3 years ago

        Tbh a large fraction of gun-owning reactionaries live in the exurbs, and it would be easier to starve them out with a chokepoint than to actually take the guns by force.

        It is easy for these paper tigers to look tough when everything's functioning. But when the power is out and the treats stop flowing and the nearest traversable road is a mile from their house, things will look very different.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I think it's coherent to say that "arm the workers" and "indiscriminately arm everyone" are two different things. In the US guns are overwhelmingly owned by right wingers and cops, so repealing 2a and taking them would be a net positive.

      It does leave the problem of what to do when you actually have a mass working class movement, but historically those movements have been able to arm themselves when the time came, usually by raiding a government armory.