RE: California High Capacity Magazine Ban Shot Down.
August 23, 2020 at 12:34 am
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2020 at 12:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 17, 2020 at 11:33 am)Divinity Wrote:Guns are used as a barometer, in this sense.(August 16, 2020 at 1:02 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I live in a country where restrictions on this sort of thing led directly to a reduction in gun deaths.
Indeed in every country where restrictions have been introduced its been successful.
In the US it seems you value your guns more than your people.
Seems is awfully fucking generous these days.
They're pretty good at it, too, being practically and politically dangerous. The fact that we have credible reservations about people having guns is what makes them good at judging the value we place on individual liberty - which americans tend to believe is a requirement of valuing human life.
Autonomy has to start somewhere. I think that it's imprudent to dismiss concerns, and, ultimately, it's not a zero sum game. The singlemost effective thing that we could do, in the us specifically, has nothing to do with any restriction about any firearm or aftermarket part or mag. We do it the american way, effecting economic inequality from the top down and pricing the average thief out of a pistol.
(it helps to remember that gun crime is a more or less on-the-job phenomena - so long as people have an economic incentive to fire, they will....and when they don't, they won't. obvs that doesn't cover nuts and whackjobs but nothing really does, lol)
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