Link to episode, relevant bit is near the beginning.
To summarize: In America, any Nazi asshole with even the slightest murderous intent can get a gun pretty easily and then use it to kill a bunch of civilians in a mass shooting.
This is in contrast to Japan, a place with very strict gun control, where it's far more difficult for said Nazis with murderous intent to get their hands on a firearm to act out their fantasy. So what happens is those Nazis, even if they kinda want to kill, are still too lazy to go through the arduous process of getting a gun to do so and are more likely to just stick to the far easier option of posting on 4Chan.
So those people in Japan who do want to get a gun bad enough aren't going to "waste" it on a bunch of no-name grocery shoppers or whatever, they want all their effort to be "worth it", so instead they do targeted attacks on high-profile individuals, most likely politicians, like Abe.
So that's why in America we get plenty of mass shootings, but very few political assassinations anymore.
They're right, because the overwhelming cause of mass shootings in America is gun proliferation. There so many guns floating around they literally spill over into other countries and fuel gun violence there. But as usual the US is exceptional in this regard because there are other countries with a similar level of gun proliferation per capita, such as Switzerland, that do not have a mass shooting problem. This is probably because their gun proliferation is institutionalized and regulated in a way the US is not.
I think it's more likely that the lifestyle of people in Switzerland is not as alienating and self-destructive as the lifestyle and culture in America. Community exists, life is nowhere near the hellworld living in America is.
A significant part of the mass shootings america has is also because it is a suicidal action.
If healthcare and social safety nets existed and urban design were different and people lived in a way that actually made them feel good the mass shootings would plummet.
On top of all of that you guys also have an absolutely INSANE gun culture that you just don't have in places like Switzerland and Finland that also have high rates of gun ownership
Gun culture in the USA is implicitly tied to historical instances of pacifying native americans and catching runaway slaves.
This is the part no one on the left or the right wants to admit out loud; We have guns to kill native Americans and slaves and that's it. That's the entire reason the 2nd amendment exists.
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Look, I'm just a stupid Australian with my own cultural biases and all so ignore me at your leisure... But there's something i just don't get
I hear this " American culture is so violent and that's the root cause ,white settler nation, violent racism and toxicity masculinity,guns as comfort blankets" and i think "yes and ...?"
Sure, in a perfect society people could own guns and not sandy hook, but it's clear America isn't that. What i don't understand is why leftists think that mitigating the damage caused by those contradictions of the American project is a cure worse than the disease.
conceal carry, stand your ground laws... These are all intended to increase suspicion , destroy solidarity and reduce common cause. I just don't see how guns materially brings people together. And if the ukr war has taught is anything states fight with guided artillery now, so i don't see how having a bump stock modded ar is supposed to protect your freedoms.
I'm in Britain, and I'm not saying they shouldn't mitigate the damage. There is absolutely a difference between what a gun with 2 shots in it can do compared to a gun with 30. The only reason I bring these things up are that it is a more valuable discussion to be having, these problems are caused by capitalism at its worst in the richest most affluent country in the world with the highest amount of resources to deal with them. The "guns should be regulated" issue has no economic, societal or class analysis of these events, it boils things down to symptom and treatment instead of material cause which is where communists should be.
With that said I don't know if I would support it anymore. Seems more like they need as many guns as they can get for the fight against fascists that's coming.
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Yes I agree but I feel quite strongly that the combination of factors within American lifestyle and society itself is generating these mass shooters and that regulation will only reduce the scale of the horror while not actually stopping the problem of people being driven to perform these murder-suicides.
I think if you could delete all guns tomorrow from the face of america the same number of murder-suicides would occur. It would change shape but the problem of people killing themselves and taking others with them when they do it would remain.
If all the guns disappeared from American soil, after the first U-Haul van/truck is used to mow down protesters the gun control liberals will be agitating for seven day waiting periods to rent trucks
Classic post about switzerland
https://hexbear.net/post/104021
I miss Rozako she was cool.
Other factors in Switzerland's gun culture - they have compulsory military service so gun owners are highly trained and they aren't allowed to stockpile ammo.