TFW guns have more rights than you
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Fascists coming to take arms, tale as old as time.
Why...just why?....Dems are just asking to lose midterms. Stop fucking with gun control shit and focus on the goddamn fascist in power.
Spend your political capital on shit that'll actually make a difference in not just gun but our overall violence numbers.
Raise the minimum wage
Increase education funding
Hire and pay teachers more
Stop techbros from planting DCs everywhere and firing their workers.
End the for profit prison systems
Get single payer healthcare passed
Kick ICE the fuck out of your state
End the war on drugs, which targets minorities the most
Enshrine abortion rights into law
Create proper safety nets for our most vulnerable citizens
Strengthen worker protection rights(unions)
Repeal anti-lgbtq+ laws
There is sooo much they could focus on that would solve our violence in general, but they go for this shit which just pushes away single issue voters and has others scratching their heads wondering wtf they're doing.
It's because both parties act as a ratcheting effect towards one singular goal. While there are minor disputes among the owners of the US on how best to reach that goal, they generally both agree that an armed populace is antithetical to their long term control, especially as quality of life continues to drop drastically across the population while they build their replacement for the working class.
Dems do their best to stall actual developmental progress (no kids, letting you buy insurance that has no coverage outside niche lifestyle conditions and letting gay people marry temporarily is not progressing society in any way) while republicans crank towards the shared goal by destroying progress and offering a 'antiestablishment' path that does nothing to harm the establishment.
If one side says 'yeah totally, keeep your guns, fight for your guns,' while doing everything to eliminate everything that actually matters for your quality of life, and the other side says 'yeah sure we'll improve your quality of life, but we want to take your guns,' then both sides funnel different groups into a looped cycle where life objectively gets worse for the average person, but the average person doesn't know how to blame so they just pick a team colour to hate for their lifetime.
Progress stopped in the 1960s in the US, and was dead in the water besides temporary privileges, not rights, after 1972.
I wonder wtf happened in 1972.
I have always wondered how they can ban fully automatic machine guns, but then say that semi automatic assualt rifles can't be banned while reading the same part of the constitution. They are both "arms". The constitution doesn't differentiate. Any differentiation made by the law is adding to what is written, clear as day. So just pick a damn side.
It's because Antonin Scalia was a fucking liar
Banning full autos but allowing semi auto versions of the same thing is stupid from almost any perspective I can think of.
I got a funny feeling that they are wording these laws dumb as fuck purposefully. Like no one can define an assault weapon. An assault rifle has a definition of a gun with select fire, which is already illegal for most people to own!
"I got me ol' assault musket in da shed. reckon I oughta bring it to the buyback program."
These laws are written by groups that want to ban guns outright. They don't have interest in actually learning anything about them, they just want to make it sound as scary as possible. That way it seems like a common sense baby step towards a full ban.
What if.....
::dawns tinfoil hat::
It's chuds playing 5-d chess and passing poorly worded laws intentionally so they get struck down in court to set a precedent?
I'd say it's more passing intentionally vague laws so if one doesn't get struck down it only takes the executive branch to make 90% of guns illegal.
Ohhhh theres the 2A folks, thought they all been tread on to death. Oops.
Morons.
I don't know why you think you want Trump armed and no one else armed to fight him, but I'd suggest taking Trump's balls out your mouth.
Your comment makes no sense geared towards me. As my comment does not suggest to you my stance on the matter, it does point out that the fact the 2A "Don't tread on me" gun nuts have been silent all while a facist regime has been strongly taking hold in the US the past year and a half, and only now are they making a stink when a Democrat threatens their gun rights.
trumps balls are no where the fuck near my mouth.... they'd have been chomped clean off if that were the case.
It really does, as lumping in 2A with the rest of it, or suggesting 'gun nuts' are right-wing in general, or that there isn't an incredibly large portion of the 'gun nut' community that is fully anti trump and has multiple armed anti-trump rallies speaks to your biases and beliefs. Those with 'anti-gun' or other extremist beliefs tend to ignore all information and news that goes against their belief. Pretending it is the right or republican voters that are the most '2A don't tread on me gun nuts' is denying the entirety of the existence of the left. I'll admit there are few people openly left wing the in the united states since they started being literally hunted down and killed by the government starting in the 1880s, but they're there, and they're why dems keep losing when they introduce far-right policies like removing guns from a populace.
You're either ignorant of reality, or you simply choose to believe an alternative reality that you've been brainwashed to believe. In either case the result of your comment would be Trump being the only one armed, which is antithetical to your own life, as well as the lives over ~95% of the US population.
Gun control cannot exist under liberal western democracy, much less during its inevitable decay into fascism. Period. It's not a thing the population can allow, as liberal western democracy, which has so far only resulted in fascism, is far too unstable to allow that vulnerability.
If the 2A was actually as dangerous as liberal propaganda suggests, there wouldn't be concentration camps in the US.
It doesn't.
Is there a bigger group of babies than gun rights advocates?
Gun control advocates.
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Guns do not hold the government in check, trade unions do.
Good thing she vetoed their collective bargaining too
The gun laws we need most are gun laws to disarm the police. Magically, they're always exempted, even in personal capacities, even in the context of red-flag laws. It's not like the police have a documented history of collective domestic abuse or anything.
Will it hold up in court? Who knows... Don't forget she's vetoing a bill to allow public employees to collectively bargain with the government.
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It's easier to ban them than it is to fix the actual issue.
I am a fan of making them much harder to obtain. Make it hunting license style or something that you can apply for that requires an evaluation and a gun safety course.
I hope all of this is repealed because it is taking a freedom away from us. I enjoy range day and this is something I've enjoyed for many decades and now is being taken away because of what? This won't stop mental illness from hurting others.
Not to mention this is the worst time to disarm the populace, on the eve of what could easily turn into civil war.
It’s easier to ban them than it is to fix the actual issue.
It's step 1 in fixing the issue
Step 1: Ban "assault rifles" (no clear definition so specifics will vary greatly from place to place)
Step 2:??
Step 3: Mental health crisis, economic crisis, and various other underlying causes of gun violence are solved
Not to say that guns aren't an issue. They are, but this is no different than arming the police with military surplus munitions and vehicles instead of decriminalizing drug use, improving social security programs and education, etc. It does nothing to actually address the issue - especially since these gun laws never actually target the guns most frequently used in gun violence/crime (pistols), and are never followed up by any step 2.
It's security theater to look like they're doing something to address the issue.
What you're proposing just makes too much sense. But also, if I understood correctly, nothing is being taken away from you. It looks like this would just ban the ability to buy, sell, transfer, and manufacture specific stuff like foregrips, collapsible stocks, and magazines with a capacity higher than 15. What you already have is yours.
I'd like to see gun registration and insurance the way we have for cars. I work with a few gun nuts and it's fucking ludicrous how many guns they have. One guy has 29. He actively hunts, and he doesn't just hunt one thing, so I can understand that different tools are built for different jobs and he needs a few to be effective at everything. But realistically he only needs like 5.
If we actually wanted to do something about mass shootings, we would do reasonable gun control legislation like we're talking about, but as a supplement to destigmatizing psychological help, making healthcare (including mental healthcare) attainable for all, and ensuring basic needs like food and housing are met. Get that shit done and I'll concede that America is "great again" now. But I'm only hearing a couple of people in office even pretend to be on board with these very basic ideas.
The way it is written now is I can no longer buy a sport .22 pistol because the magazine has the capability of being over 15. This is legal to buy and own in Europe but now illegal in Virginia.
Gun maintenence is a thing. Parts need to be replaced over time. Upgrading or changing out parts is a thing. This is effectively stopping us from replacing certain parts if they break. If I want to sell what I have and buy something else, I can no longer do it.
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