Conservatives literally want to be able to own whatever firearm they want and be able to mow us down with impunity so much so that when they can’t, when we too are armed they react like this fucking idiot
Conservatives created gun control in California in response to the Black Panther Party
Prevailing debate obscures the fact that we already have a form of gun control in the United States. As legal scholar Ben Levin explains, the problem is that it’s a form of gun control that is mostly about locking up poor black men in huge numbers. The Left should demand a society without readily available weapons of war on the streets and a society without mass incarceration. Check out Dan’s Jacobin article on carceral gun control here.
06 Oct 2017
See also the public defenders who filed an amicus brief in the 2022 SCOTUS New York gun control case arguing that gun control laws harm their clients. “We share the collective concern about gun violence. But feeding the prison pipeline with a steady stream of Black and Brown people, as New York’s law did, is not the answer.”
