• OhWell [he/him]
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    He's FINALLY talking about his bat shit crazy gun control platform. The Dems have not been talking about it much but BOTH Biden and Harris have similar WTF gun control platforms that are most likely going to lead us closer to an all out civil war.

    Biden's plan is to outright ban the manufacturing and import sales of semi-automatic weapons (scary black assault rifles). After that, he wants to impose a $200 tax fine for ownership of ANY weapon that has a capacity of over 10 rounds and this bill will target mostly gun owners who have handguns. If you don't pay your fine, then your weapons are to be confiscated and furthermore, lists of gun owners will be taken here.

    Tell me how this isn't going to lead to civil unrest when he rolls this out. Dems are arrogant enough to push this, and I can already see GOP governors from southern states basically telling Biden 'OK, fuck you, come and take the guns'. This kind of stuff is going to make the rightwing absolutely holler and scream their heads off like they did about Obama and gun control.

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      So basically the bill is really about disarming the poor, meanwhile the rich not only get to keep guns for a measly $200 tax, but they get their own army (the police. Police main function is protect property, the rich own the property, therefore the police main function is to protect the rich).

      • OhWell [he/him]
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        Correct, and as I've been saying all along, Biden is going to wage naked class war on the poor. This is just one of many instances of it with the policies he's going to push and everything he's planning.

        My greatest fear is that this senile old asshole and Harris will lay the groundwork for our future authoritarian dictator that is going to come after him, and this will be the beginning of it. Disarm the poor and then push some bills in bipartisanship with the GOP to target protesters and jail them indefinitely.

      • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        "assault rifles" have a well-understood definition: "a selective-fire rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine." These are already illegal (except in very rare cases) due to being automatic.

        I haven't read Biden's plan, but judging from this thread, and from past legislation, the issue is "assault weapons" which is a made up term that no one can agree on.

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        4 years ago

        That's his plan. It's going to incite some serious rage from right wingers. We haven't seen anything yet from the far right. The backlash to Biden is going to be fucking massive and intense, and will make the Tea Party and Trump look like a complete joke.