I lose my cool when people say the same old lib talking points about how awful mass shootings are and how we need "common sense" gun control. It's the combination of smarmy :maybe-later-honey: :maybe-later-kiddo: attitude and unwillingness to consider the implications of policy, or the history of similar disarming of leftists and vulnerable groups. So I get a little hot and I bully them. Then, they play the "actually I'm [member of vulnerable group] " or "my sibling died to gun violence" card. Great so now I'm an asshole.
Am I wrong to bully people for shallow thinking and smug attitudes. Do I stoop to their style of rhetoric playing up atrocities like the Shanghai Massacre of disarmed leftists by the KMT or how cops kill and abuse black people with impunity after disarming the Black Panthers with the Mulford Act? These fools think these cops will protect us? It's so frustrating.
idk maybe they're just radlibs in leftist spaces
My problem is that they say that shit and then don't do anything about it. There probably wouldn't be a single issue that would be easier to build a mass movement around and yet they sit on their ass and repeat smarmy lib talking points like that's going to do anything. Any popular energy on this issue is immediately filtered into backrooms where the Democratic party and the pro gun control lobby guzzle down tax deductible billionaire money to sustain their bourgeois lifestyles. Bring it to the masses and into the streets and I'll take the issue more seriously.
What are you saying? Are you in the US?
Yeah I'm in the states. I'm saying like every progressive issue it gets taken over by the politicians, lobbyists, and bureaucrats and nobody even tries to build a mass movement around it.
I'm slightly opposed to gun control but had something like March for our Lives actually been a sustained movement it would have been cool. Instead it turned into a lobbying group. This seems to always happen with gun control in particular.
I see what you mean now thanks. I don't see it becoming a mass movement because the masses aren't on board. Too many Americans own guns and believe they would be less safe without them. It is a movement of young people who can't have guns, have no experience with them except the fear of being shot, which I completely understand. Then of course billionaires don't want an armed working class, I'm sure they don't want mass shootings either (who does), but their material interests align with that. On the other hand, there's other capitalists whose material interests benefit from civilian gun sales.