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What if we did 300 backflips through fires and explosions instead of the fucking obvious?

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[–] Salah@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Weapon distribution is in hands of capital, it will always be the case that right extremist group have more and more advanced weapons as long as they’re supported by capital. I’m not against guns in general but this spiral towards more and more violent weapons mostly hurts working class people who get labelled as collateral damage.

[–] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

I'm not arguing against gun control, I just reckon that it'll be applied unequally along racial lines because America is like that. Could be different, but we didn't defund the police yet.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At the same time, it's my experience that stricter gun control limits the ability of working class people to own guns at all more than anyone else. People up thread are talking about getting guns for safety if they can, you literally cannot here. It is wholly illegal to buy a gun for your safety, unless you are a pig or rent-a-pig. The rules are pretty strict and as a result our gun culture is basically gone (probably not a bad thing as this also massively reduced firearm violence, and violence overall, even for minorities not having a gun to defend yourself in a country with very few firearms appears to be far safer than having one in a country with them, but there are obviously other considerations). So though minorities have far more limited de facto gun rights than the majority in the USA, places with strict gun control leaves workers and minorities with far fewer again. I don't even know anyone with a gun - my brother and dad both did, but the licensing costs were just not tenable for something they got limited use out of. The price of a black market AR is comparable to a decent new car - not even the cheapest ones! - and legal ones are strictly disallowed for citizens, as are all centre fire semi auto rifles. Handguns basically cannot be owned by civilians except as part of a target shooting club and I believe are kept at the club, there's absolutely no tolerance for carrying it with you or keeping it - or any firearm - in such a way that it would be useful for self defense.

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

I think there’s different types of gun control, making it more costly or difficult to own a gun in general is obviously bad for us. But restrictions on what types of guns are allowed is important imo and the US is way too lax on that. Also obviously a huge problem is the amount of weapons that can be used for mass killings that are being and have been produced in the US.