I’m opposed to gun control. But I’m wondering how to get past this hurdle with libs. Are there other countries with the amount of guns as the USA that don’t have these mass shooting problems? Is it a unique American sickness?

  • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    There is definitely an American cult of the gun. It's part of the civic religion. People believe wholeheartedly in all the Wild West mythos, even though it's all BS pushed by dime novels.

    There's a reason the shootout at the OK Corral has been so heavily featured in American culture: because it was a huge outlier. If it was just another Tuesday in the Old West, we wouldn't have so many movies about it.

    Having said that, I tend to go more practical: the horse has left the barn on gun control. There's hundreds of millions of guns in America. Gun control at this point is emptying an ocean with a teaspoon. So, instead of living in a fantasy world where we can legislate all the guns into the cornfield, recognize that unilateral disarmament is suicide by civility.

    Or to put it another way: strict gun control on gun sales now just disarms leftists who are trying to catch up, as the right is literally awash in guns.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Or to put it another way: strict gun control on gun sales now just disarms leftists who are trying to catch up, as the right is literally awash in guns.

      And this is why there's a such thing as under-the-table markets or buying unfinished gun parts and finishing them yourself.