And let’s give cops money to do it!

Edit: this post has nothing to do with “revolution” or adventurism. The libs like to point the finger at replublicans and say “they won’t let us do background checks!” As if that will stop any of this

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Serbia had 3.23 firearm related deaths per 100 000 people, the USA had 12.21 firearm related deaths per 100 000 people. In terms of total gun violence, that example seems to track pretty closely with the amount of guns.

    Idk, I just find it completely incomprehensible that the USA has more gun related deaths per capita than where I live right now, a country which has a reputation for a lot of violent crime.

    Pretty much every AES state still standing has strict gun control. Fidel Castro tried to give guns to civilian groups as self defence but quickly backtracked after civilian shootings. You now have to get a type of license to own a firearm, depending on your intended use for it. And this is the most lax AES state on gun control. China has extremely strict gun control. So does Vietnam, the DPRK and Laos. Bolivia enacted some gun control in 2013. Venezuela even stopped allowing civilians to obtain more guns after colour revolution attempts. I genuinely can't think of an AES state today that does not have some form of gun control.

    China's solution to extremism is re education and reintegration into society using state power. If you don't trust the liberals to take guns, how can you trust them to re educate neo Nazis?

    • kristina [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      its pretty easy to join the militia (re: if youre a communist) in china and they give you guns in the militia. same with cuba. 'gun control' in socialist states means 'guns for socialists'. i fully support gun control if it means only socialists get them.

      but gun control in the usa means only psychopathic mass murderers in the military and police and fascists in national guards get them, while socialists get none

    • Foolio [any]
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      3 years ago

      The US has a lot of violent crime, it's just highly stratified. If you're white and don't live in an inner city or an isolated rural area, gun violence is rare. If you live in Chicago or Philadelphia or many other places, gun violence is as common as El Salvador for similar reasons (low grade civil war stoked by US imperial meddling).

      The big spectacle of these mass shootings is another example of Americans acting like they are special because of the media yapping. Brasil regularly has mass shootings and the police send actual like militarized squads into favelas to attack gangs. But yes, America is the "only country where this happens" and the solution is clearly some lib flsvor-of-the-month campaign 🙄

      The other thing is that these kind of large scale, spectacle shootings were almost unheard of until Columbine and the media circus that came with. Yeah, kids always got in gang beefs or fights over kid shit and some brought guns to school to flex, but Americans owned guns and had public schools for many years without these large scale nihilistic attacks. Something else changes.