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
nationwide buyback & amnesty program, strict licencing and criminalisation thereafter.
the idea that all comers can get their hands on a gun is fucking wild to me, usa is a small arms manufacturer's wet dream
The answer isn't more guns
buybacks are the quickest route to taking all the guns from the underprivileged and economically underserved minorities while leaving all the guns in the hands of the middle class and petit bourg white supremacists who have the fun bucks to spare. Gun control is good and well but buybacks are an incredibly bad solution
Leftists can't impact policy in the USA, so what's the point of this? That might be nice, but it won't happen. The point is that any actual gun policy in the US will be used against minorities first and the ones most likely to do the violence will be allowed to retain their guns. There's already tax stamps that make suppressors and full auto basically unreachable for poor people but easily available for the wealthy.
The answer to what?
Anyone with a 3D printer and internet can make a gun now. The cat is out of the bag. Criminalize it all you want, criminals will still do it.
The answer has nothing to do with gun control.
anyone with some pipe fittings can make a slam gun too. That doesn't mean semiautos should be easily accessible, nor that you should just accept the consequences
I don't want to just accept the consequences. I want to address the real causes and solutions to antisocial behavior, instead of us playing whack-a-mole with different configurations of plastic and metal.
And semi-autos are printable too.
absolutely, that's the right way to do things. again, idk, y'all are strapped to the teeth already, I don't see a way of undoing that without further bloodshed, you're all so attached to your instruments of death.
Like yes, root causes and solutions, but in the meantime, what?
You being armed does nothing to help your neighbour, nor better living conditions for anyone. Someone in crisis (or power, or both) having access to firearms does little to deescalate or address the situation either.
It does help. An armed leftist stopped the Normandale Park shooter in Portland. The actual kind of gun control that can get passed in the US won't stop right-wing violence against us. It's up to us to arm, train and protect each other.