To the pro-gun leftists, what is your proposed solution to this? I’m honestly curious to hear a tangible solution that doesn’t involve gun reform
Mental healthcare via M4A, last I heard. Because it’s obviously something in their head.
The shooting in Austin this last weekend was perpetrated by “a juvenile”, someone who is, as you may or may not be aware, already not legally allowed to possess firearms, so no amount of “gun reform” would have stopped it. The way you prevent violent crime is really super fucking obviously by addressing the actual root causes of crime rather than whatever tool a violent criminal happens to be using, and in this end-stage capitalist hellhole of a Latter Day Weimar Republic that means first and foremost lifting upwards of a hundred million Americans out of poverty and desperation by passing laws guaranteeing a federal living wage and a universal basic income for those who can’t work, and universal healthcare including free mental healthcare; not because of any “LOL they must be crazy” horseshit but because the majority of firearm homicides in the US are committed by the person holding the gun, and medical debt is the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the US. The second step is ending the so-called “war on drugs”– which is and always has been a war on poor brown people, and by extension is directly responsible for most of the violent crime in Central and South America– and the for-profit prison industry, which was expressly designed to put young Black and Latino men on a conveyor belt from school directly to prison. That would, incidentally, also help keep Republicans from using the Electoral College to cheat their way into the White House after losing the popular vote, since the entire purpose of the EC from the beginning was to give disproportionate power to slave states by using a large non-voting population to determine each state’s number of electors, and today America calls its slaves “prisoners with jobs”.
Guns do not cause crime, and gun control does not prevent it– look at this FBI table of murder weapons by state, and compare those statistics to the gun control laws of California, Texas, and Vermont. There is no correlation between gun control and gun crime in the US. None. It simply does not exist, in either direction. What gun control does do is deprive innocent people of the ability to defend themselves from violent criminals, and overwhelmingly those people targeted for the strictest gun control are poor people and minorities. They’re also overwhelmingly targeted for assault and murder by the police, which on average kill two and a half times as many people every year as “mass shootings”, even if you use the includes-kids-having-pellet-gun-fights-and-people-injured-while-running-away-from-the-sound-of-loud-noises-they-thought-were-gunfire definition of “mass shooting” used by civil disarmament propaganda outlets like shootingtracker and violencepolicycenter.
The only gun control I support is disarming the police, and I’ll believe gun control advocates are arguing in good faith when they demand that cops have to follow the same gun control laws that innocent people do.
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“We must realize that each of us is ruled by two principles which we follow wherever they lead: one is our inborn desire for pleasures, the other is our acquired judgment that pursues what is best. Sometimes these two are in agreement; but there are times when they quarrel inside us, and then sometimes one of them gains control, sometimes the other. Now when judgment is in control and leads us by reasoning toward what is best, that sort of self-control is called ‘being in your right mind’; but when desire takes command in us and drags us without reasoning toward pleasure, then its command is known as ‘outrageousness’.”
— Plato, Phaedrus (via philosophybits)
