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I am more afraid of a society in which oppressed demographics are utterly helpless against the violence of an historically violent authoritarian state that actively seeks to cover up and downplay its committed atrocities.
I do not think I am being hyperbolic or insensitive. I think my priorities and sympathies are just less specific than victims of domestic mass shootings.
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The personality types (manipulators abusers and bigots) that create mass shootings in our militarized authoritarian society are glorified. Our government and landlords and employers enact violence every day.
This society facilitates selfishness and represses kindness, and everyone knows this.
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And though not everyone reading this may feel that they live in an authoritarian society, maybe you are not a victim of the authoritarian circumstances, or you have convinced yourselves that other societies are worse.
Worse than what?
Cities full of billionaires that install spikes on benches so homeless trans kids can't find a place to sleep?
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Maybe your argument is only taking *some* guns away, or restricting who gets to purchase them. Not banning them entirely.
Okay.
These kinds of laws have only ever been enacted to disarm minorities. Not to disarm neo nazi domestic terrorists. Not to disarm the white dudes who shoot innocent people.
It was always about disarming: Black people. Disabled people. Queer people. And so on...
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All those countries neoliberals think are ~so much worse~...
Guess what they have?
Militarized cops, and no guns for citizens.
You get what you ask for.
@ThisIsLeeloo If you’re arguing that Guns are Woke then I think the practical objection is that guns in individual hands don’t help all that much against trained soldiers or militarised police. Insurgency tactics and bomb-making skills are what you need if you’re really going down that route.
@ThisIsLeeloo I think you’re missing the point about training, among other things. But this weird idea that weapons are “protection” is the root problem. I suspect it comes from state rhetoric on military spending.
@ghost_bird domestic terrorists can also make bombs
the state has both bombs and guns
there is no reason to be denied access to tools your enemies also have
sometimes insurgents are good at shooting