• darharrison@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That’s all well and good, maybe guns are inherently problematic. But since no one is paying attention to my wording I’ll just say it:

    Right wingers and neo-fascists commit the majority of gun violence in this country and will absolutely never give them up. They are not the poor and unsophisticated rednecks you’re told they are, they tend to be richer than average and their brand of violence is calculated. Many of them are current and former police officers and therefore won’t take their friends’ guns away just because the law says so.

    If you’re poor you’re less likely to be white and straight and therefore more likely to be harassed or killed by the aforementioned groups.

    This is not me saying that it’s time to give up on gun control laws or that we need more guns. Fewer guns in the US will mean a more peaceful country. I’m saying that laws that simply make it more expensive to buy and own guns will not deter violent people from buying them because they impose no restrictions on them.