• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Yea as a gun owner lol what bullshit are you shoveling?

    And that shit doesn’t happen, stop making up bullshit scenarios…not even going to speak on the fact that none of what you said or propose will stop someone from obtaining a firearm. It’s not illegal to sell privately and as you probably know prohibition didn’t work.

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      Every other country has a FRACTION OF A FRACTION of the amount of shootings that we do, and you have the gall to sit there and go “none of what you said or propose will stop someone”, when politicians and gun control groups have literally proposed NUMEROUS extremely common sense fixes to help curb the violence. It’s fucking loons like you that rally against it ad nauseum because “DeMs CuMmInG fEr MuH gUnS!1!”. You’re nothing but a gun lobbyists mouthpiece who would rather let kids get killed so you can keep an overpowered AR than try LITERALLY anything to help alleviate the situation.

      No one is coming for my shotgun, or my handgun, or my hunting rifle. Literally no one will ever pass a law that will ban those. Red flag laws WORK. Mandatory withholding periods WORK. Banning AR weapons and bump stocks would be a step in the right direction. Pushing these laws on a federal level would help. Would it stop everything? No, but it would provide a LOT more opportunities to catch someone before it happens.

      Fuck, do something to help our kids, don’t be the barrier that makes it more difficult.

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        Lol and you’re a mouth piece for emotional ignorance…you even saying no one is touching your handguns when 95% of all gun deaths are via handguns…rifles of all kinds are around 3% of all gun deaths, and then the AR style rifles make up around 50 deaths a year…50…more kids are killed by being punched and kicked to death by an order of magnitude 10xs the amount done via AR pattern rifles.

        Wanna actually do something to help, stop focusing on guns, you’re not going to stop the violence that way. Focus on:

        We can start with:

        • Single payer healthcare

        • Ending the War on Drugs

        • Ending Qualified immunity

        • Properly funding our schools and not just rich white suburb schools.

        • Build more schools and hire more teachers for proper pay so the class room sizes aren’t 30-40 kids for one teacher.

        • UBI (at least start talking about it) once AI takes over most of the blue collar jobs.

        • End for profit prisons

        • Enforce the laws already on the books

        • Make sure there are safety nets for poor families so the kids don’t turn to violence/gangs to survive.

        • Increase the minimum wage

        • Recreate our mental healthcare so kids don’t turn to the internet for support. And to help veterans not end up as a suicide number.

        • Actively make a law to solidify Pro-choice rights. More unwanted children do not help our situation.

        • Banning Insider Trading for Congress

        • Term limits

        • Ranked Choice Voting so we can move away from a 2 party system

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      11 months ago

      So what do you think is going to decrease school shootings? What are you proposing or support that will improve the situation?

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        We can start with:

        • Single payer healthcare

        • Ending the War on Drugs

        • Ending Qualified immunity

        • Properly funding our schools and not just rich white suburb schools.

        • Build more schools and hire more teachers for proper pay so the class room sizes aren’t 30-40 kids for one teacher.

        • UBI (at least start talking about it) once AI takes over most of the blue collar jobs.

        • End for profit prisons

        • Enforce the laws already on the books

        • Make sure there are safety nets for poor families so the kids don’t turn to violence/gangs to survive.

        • Increase the minimum wage

        • Recreate our mental healthcare so kids don’t turn to the internet for support. And to help veterans not end up as a suicide number.

        • Actively make a law to solidify Pro-choice rights. More unwanted children do not help our situation.

        • Banning Insider Trading for Congress

        • Term limits

        • Ranked Choice Voting so we can move away from a 2 party system

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          11 months ago

          So basically… Fix every other nearly impossible to fix problem first before even deciding to do anything about the actual guns, if anything at all?

          And to be clear, by impossible to fix, I mean politically, not that these problems are actually unsolvable.

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            So you’re plan is to try and tackle something that’s written into the constitution… that’s your goal? Say it’s nearly impossible to do everything else on that list which isn’t written into our constitution…but guns… they’re easier to fix…fucking hell you all are really naive.

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              So you’re plan is to try and tackle something that’s written into the constitution… that’s your goal?

              You mean like slavery?

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                Are you equating slavery to owning firearms? You white privileged ivory tower types are hilarious.

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                  Nope. I’m equating slavery to tackling something in the constitution and changing it. You know, the thing you just implied was not something that could be done. I’m sure you know that and are obfuscating.

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                    Yea everyone basically agreed slavery was bad…we fought a fucking civil war over it…the majority of the USA is pro-gun. You will never radify the constitution to remove or nullify the 2nd. It’s not going to ever happen.

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              11 months ago

              I didn’t specify a plan one way or another. I just think it’s crazy that the talking points you presented seem pretty clearly designed to just kick this issue down the road, cause at least that way you still get to have your guns.

              And believe me, solving all those things you mentioned would be great. But why not also try and do something about the major gun issues at the same time too?

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                Those “talking points” would solve our firearm violence. We don’t have a gun problem, we have a societal one. Random mass shootings are a new phenomenon…gang violence and drug violence are not. Solving these things with the list I posted, would curb our violence epidemic 100xs more than just another emotional gun law from people who don’t understand guns.

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                  11 months ago

                  We do have a societal problem. We also very much have a gun problem.

                  And proposing all these other things you know won’t get accomplished is a way to shift all the responsibility away from the gun issue itself.

                  And you aren’t being emotional about even the thought of some more gun control or anything to even tackle that issue head on? Come on.

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                    It might be because I’m not delusional about why we have the violence in the first place. I’m proposing things that actually would make a difference, another AWB or mag cap/mag ban/etc is emotional policies that will not put a single dent in our gun violence… I’m not the one kicking the can down the road, you are.

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          Those are all fantastic suggestions. In my opinion we absolutely should be taking much more drastic measures to decrease school shootings in the meantime, as nearly everything you suggest would still take at least ~15-20 years to see results. Any dead kid is too many and there are way too many school shootings.

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          Lol fantastic response. And its crickets from everyone else being critical

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            No, not crickets. Those things sound great, let’s do them. We should do everything we can, and that also includes stricter gun laws.

            Not term limits though. It may sound like a good idea, but I implore you to research issues with term limits.

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              Term limits need to happen, otherwise you end up being ruled by politicians who are in a perpetual cycle of trying to stay in office.

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                Term limits will seal the deal to the end of our Democracy.

                Either you’re arguing in bad faith, and know this, or you’re refusing to inform yourself of the downsides.

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                  So you’re ok with SCOTUS and other judges being appointed and no term limits? What about the POTUS, are you saying it’s ok if Trump won and kept being president as long as he continues to win?

                  Please tell me the good sides of having no term limits. Laws shouldn’t be straped to a single person.

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                    Buddy, I’m not going to do all the work for you. This is a well researched subject with a ton of information, it’s not some brand new idea.

                    I was mainly referring to elected positions, I’m not necessarily against term limits for Supreme Court Justices.

                    Edit: See my reply to the knob below for a few sources.

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          And you can end with bringing your gun regulations up to speed to every other developed nation.

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        Nothing will improve the situation until we make a concerted effort to shut down gun manufacturing and distribution, even forcibly removing them from the hands of criminals any way we possibly can. And since the kid-killers at the NRA won’t allow that, the answer is - this problem of mass murder in schools is only going to intensify until everyone’s child is at risk and can no longer attend public schools of any kind. And that’s only the tip of the horrific iceberg of a shitshow that’s coming to our country.

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          Wow you’re really off the deep end aren’t you…I thought most conspiracy theory nut jobs where mainly right wing…but shit you just went into over drive and leaned hard left on that one…

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            I am as leftist as any human being ever could be - and damn proud of it. Saying the truth always seems like “going off the deep end” to people who aren’t able to comprehend. I consider your remark proof of that.

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        Or sold with a licensed dealer present and require that it gets properly registered.

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        Actually with the new proposals to remove firearms from anyone with any kind of criminal background or mental health disorder, and the law being amended to allow this, there are ways to effectively stop people from having firearms. It’s simple humanitarian guidelines that need to be enacted. Only a churlish dolt would refuse to see the common sense of keeping guns out of the hands of men and boys.

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        Cool, how do you plan to enforce it… cause we all know that drugs being illegal…no one sells those on the black market…

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            Registration is a tool for oppressing minorities. It’s racist, and thinking registration is going to magically stop gang violence is hilariously naive.

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                I’m actually not, nice try though. But gun laws have always heavily been used as oppression tools towards minorities. The reason I pointed out gang violence, is because that’s where 85% of our gun homicides come from.

                Just an FYI…the car and gun comparison is silly. You can buy a car with no BG check, at any age, for cash, transport it across state lines, not register it or have insurance and drive it on private property at any age.