Yeah, my understanding of US firearm politics is basically:
27,% libs who'd like the social conditions to improve but have nothing material or concrete to achieve that, other than banning guns = good
23,% chuds who think the entire thing is fucked regardless and just going to pull the US into more and more overt fascism, so more guns = good
48,-49,% non-voters and normies who just tune it all out and won't do anything about the fascist turn
1,-2,% leftists who to varying degrees accept the premise that firearms will never be restricted in the US, and have concrete ideas that would reduce all of the conditions that lead to most firearms injuries or deaths
I'm not especially convinced that dead kids' photographs would honestly do much to move the needle.
Basically. Mass disarmament is both politically and practically an impossible task. It specter serves as a means of suspending US politics within the realm of the primarily symbolic, but if Sandy Hook didn't result in a program of mass disarmament, no pictures of brutalized children will. And then, even if mass disarmament were politically and practically possible, it would ultimately be twisted into a weapon aimed at vulnerable minorities once translated through the layers of the American state. You can't even approach the question of firearms without first addressing the underlying social conditions.
In this case, the great challenge is even getting people to care in any material way that kids or LGBTQ+ community spaces, or spaces associated with racial and ethnic minorities are getting shot up. Until you address the sociopathic tendency of American political-economics, showing Americans the horror of violence done to others is ultimately meaningless.
Yeah, my understanding of US firearm politics is basically:
I'm not especially convinced that dead kids' photographs would honestly do much to move the needle.
Basically. Mass disarmament is both politically and practically an impossible task. It specter serves as a means of suspending US politics within the realm of the primarily symbolic, but if Sandy Hook didn't result in a program of mass disarmament, no pictures of brutalized children will. And then, even if mass disarmament were politically and practically possible, it would ultimately be twisted into a weapon aimed at vulnerable minorities once translated through the layers of the American state. You can't even approach the question of firearms without first addressing the underlying social conditions.
In this case, the great challenge is even getting people to care in any material way that kids or LGBTQ+ community spaces, or spaces associated with racial and ethnic minorities are getting shot up. Until you address the sociopathic tendency of American political-economics, showing Americans the horror of violence done to others is ultimately meaningless.