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
What's so unique about that?
name another country in the same bind as the US is on guns
Having a government captured by industry isn't unique, the fact that in the US the gun industry is one of them is a distinction without a difference, not some Gordian knot no one can figure out how to untie.
Instead of championing movement to counter that power we have very cool leftists repeating gun industry opposition to basic levels of gun control.
yeah, you can't name another because there isn't one
No shit chappie I didn't say it isn't unique I said it isn't a unique bind. It's the same shit lots of places, the only question is are you on the side of :porky-happy: or not
Ah yes, I forgot that all things exist in a vacuum and not in dialectical relation to each other
Thank you, I will join your movement and :vote: with my wallet
Also, it's not some fucking gordian knot. We know how to untie it, it's just that it involves replacing our entire government
In the meantime, more criminalization in the US is just more criminalization