And let’s give cops money to do it!

Edit: this post has nothing to do with “revolution” or adventurism. The libs like to point the finger at replublicans and say “they won’t let us do background checks!” As if that will stop any of this

  • drinkinglakewater [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Mass shootings are too deep an issue for the liberal state and media to handle meaningfully. If you want to meaningfully change things it requires spreading class consciousness, confronting white supremacy and settler colonialism, patriarchy, xenophobia, etc. The only realistic "easy" option at the moment to try to curb it is gun control.

    As an aside, I don't understand why US leftists have this obsession with access to guns. Why should you care about state legitimacy when acquiring weapons to use against it? If it's used in opposition to the state we'd be treated the same whether the gun came from Mexico or Walmart.

    • Lundi [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      As an aside, I don’t understand why US leftists have this obsession with access to guns. Why should you care about state legitimacy when acquiring weapons to use against it? If it’s used in opposition to the state we’d be treated the same whether the gun came from Mexico or Walmart.

      It really makes no sense why american leftists would be so obsessed with the legality of guns.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        "I have never killed a bird nor shot a rabbit. I never liked fishing and always let others kill even the chickens which I ate. Nearly all my schoolmates in the South carried pistols. I never owned one. I could never conceive myself killing a human being. But in 1906 I rushed back from Alabama to Atlanta where my wife and six-year old child were living. A mob had raged for days killing Negroes. I bought a Winchester double-barreled shotgun and two dozen rounds of shells filled with buckshot. If a white mob had stepped on the campus where I lived I would without hesitation have sprayed their guts over the grass."

        I've been attacked enough that I consider guns to be a high priority to defend myself against white supremacists who would attack me, thanks. Has nothing to do with the state, has everything to do with decentralized violence against minorities

      • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Honestly, my perspective is shaped as lgbt (the one you can get away with the easiest in public) and the need for others in the community to be able to practice self defense