RE: https://cyberplace.social/@WiteWulf/115962212168435175
There is something particularly obscene about watching Americans literally fighting and dying in the streets of Minneapolis to protect their immigrant neighbors from a fascist pogrom and choosing to focus on “gun violence” as an abstract issue to solve by disarming those same Americans.
Logically, then, fewer people owning guns should result in fewer deaths.
Is that what you think will happen in the US under Trump? People being gunned down in the streets, people being disappeared into concentration camps—would fewer guns fix that?
@HeavenlyPossum no, not immediately, but if levels of gun ownership had not been allowed to escalate to where they are now, as a consequence of the long held second amendment, there would not be a need for armed law enforcement and mentality of enforcing right through fire power.
If guns are the way, though, why are the 30% of gun owning Americans not rising up against Trump? Why are the people against ICE not gunning them down? Are they just more libs, as you call them?
“not immediately” so there’s a point in the future at which the US state would stop being murderously fascist if its public would just disarm itself?
US police are armed because the US is an authoritarian police state that uses lethal police violence to maintain hierarchies of power.
Gun *culture* in the US has been fascist-coded for decades.
HeavenlyPossum
Gary 