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A federal judge has blocked the state of Hawaii from enforcing a recently enacted ban on firearms on its prized beaches and in other areas including banks, bars and parks, citing last year's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights.

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[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

Hell yes. Make guns a nonpartisan "nonissue." Armed minorities are harder to oppress, and gun control disproportionately affects minorities in marginalized and overpoliced communities. One state just removed the requirement for pistol purchase permits because (as it was designed to be in the first place since it was a Jim Crow era law) racist sheriffs were denying black people's permits, 60% of denials were to black people.

[-] ycnz@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, famously, the US doesn't oppress minorities because of all the guns.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

There's a reason California has so much gun control, and it is Ronald Reagan being racist in the 80's because the Black Panthers were exercising their right to bare arms, because it was making it harder for the police to oppress them. In fact CCW and purchase permits were designed and are often still used as a way to keep POC from exercising their rights, as it makes them harder to oppress if they can carry. They use gun control to oppress those minorities, things like stop and frisk, or denying permits and charging them when they carry anyway. They enforce this gun control primarily in overpoliced marginalized minority neighborhoods, not in gated communities or majority white neighborhoods. Regardless of your intentions or perceptions, the real life effects of gun control are these, and it is harder to oppress a person/community/people who have guns than one who does not.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

While Reagan was racist and was responsible for a lot of bad shit in the '80s, what you're talking about with the Panthers was in the late '60s.

[-] girlfreddy@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Girlfreddy was quick with it! But yeah, that.

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