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
Do you live in the US? Just curious? I always hear white US liberals make this argument. They are terrified of random violence, but seem totally fine with targeted structural violence against other ethnicities, cultures, and class backgrounds.
For example, one of the side effects of the constitutional carry boom, similar to the decriminalization of marijuana, is the reduction of arrests and killings by police of African American men. Why? Because police use marijuana and weapons charges to arrest and select young black people for assault.
Whenever I ask, how will you prevent black , poorer, and indigenous people from being targeted by the police enforcing your weapons laws, there is no answer. They either don't care or willingly want poorer people, or non White's to be eliminated or have their rights stripped.
What are you talking about with “your weapon laws”?
I just think it’s reasonable for Americans to be uncomfortable by the amount of gun violence in this country. I also think the pro gun leftists are an almost utopian in their thoughts of the masses having gun ownership in a society that has taught the masses that every single stranger is a threat to your safety.