Both things need to happen: the underlying problem can be addressed, which is and has been being done with varying degrees of success - and they can also pick the low hanging fruit and make less deadly weapons available to potential criminals.
Don’t joke. This legislation is on the verge is the US.
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and ask a couple good faith questions:
Do you think it matters what type of weapon a potential mass murderer has access to?
Do you think more or less people would have died if the shooters in this attack had high capacity high ROF weapons available in the US, for example?
Bingo. But good luck pinning a gun nut down and having a conversation about the lethality of the weapon.
Agree with all.
I’d go further: the goal of legislation like this isn’t to reduce gun crime at all, or deal with the intent to murder…that’s dealt with in different legislation.
The goal here is to reduce harm…it makes a huge difference what weapon a criminal has access to when they’re trying to kill people. Gun nuts can’t get their heads around or cope with the difference between a potential mass murderer having a knife and a fully automatic weapon. They’ll change the subject.
Terribly incorrect and it absolutely will.
The (realistic) goal isn’t to bring people back (why even say that?) or reduce crime to zero…it’s to reduce potential harm.
You don’t even need to look past this attack to see that gun control saved lives: had the shooters been armed with high-capacity high-volume weapons available in the USA, for example, they could have killed scores more people. If, in the next attack, shooters have access to less lethal weapons…less people will die.
Marx, like the US second amendment, wasn’t written in the contemporary context.
Marx wasn’t talking about cheap fast-firing weapons being used against a state armed with drones and helicopters, etc.
If you want to project Marx forward, “arms” should be redefined as something meaningful like speech and political power…not the literal ability to coerce your masters with rifles. If 10,000 Americans rose up in arms against the government, 10,000 Americans would be quickly put down with superior arms.
She also wastes money on Apple products she can barely understand. She has so many unnecessary subscriptions to bullshit because she’s got a good pension and she thinks she needs to. It sucks to watch.
My mother…boomers and a lot of Gen X…are completely addicted to Facebook. They find it essential because of all its lame social organizing groups and marketplace…so they end up also getting all their information from it…information mixed with these scams.
Just fucking regulate them. If somebody gets scammed…make Facebook pay for part of the restitution.
This is what happens when companies “self regulate”. The strategy is basically “we’ll do absolutely nothing to hurt revenue…but we’ll absolutely pretend we’re doing something”.
The only way Facebook is going to hire actual people to look at random ads before they’re posted…which is the only thing that will work…is if they pay a steep enough penalty when people get scammed.
It’s been going on since ~1900. Before that they were friends, often brothers in arms.
I don’t understand why ICE is detaining people for moving violations in the first place?
I’m guessing they just go out and look for reasons to detain non-white people in case they can deport them?
This is a solution for people who don’t need a solution because they’re already great parents.
The vast majority of parents aren’t going to take their kids’ phones away.
I don’t get it. This “ban” is going to last days or hours before the kids just find an app that does’t check their age.
It also will allow the big platforms to drop any pretence that their users need to be protected and take the gloves off with their algorithms to increase engagement to replace the kids.
Oh yeah…in my experience gay men can be very mean to lesbians. I had a drag king dishwasher who was continuously sexually harassed by staff and customers…they said vile things to her on the daily. Some refused to call her by her “stage” name…despite having no problem with drag queens.
This doesn’t surprise me.
I got a job as a chef at a queer piano bar a few years back. Up until that point I had kind of put gay people on a pedestal…like…I thought all the adversity made them innately virtuous.
But while working there I had the stupidest revelation I’ve ever had: Queer people are, in fact, exactly like other people. What I mean by that is my big eureka was that some gay people that are terrible people, some are great people, and every shade in between. Some of the most openly transphobic people I’ve met, for example, are from the gay community.
Straight up. He’d already been openly racist, specifically against Somalis….and everyone fucking else.
At this point we should just admit we fucked up…conservatives are an incurable cancer, and just nuke the fucking thing from orbit. I have no hope when people are this stupid.
Anyone who supported Trump in 2024 has a broken brain. Waking up just because he happens to specifically be racist again you is just…I don’t even know what say.
To bad, so sad…fuck off?
My cats breath smells like cat food.
Obscenely corrupt. These people shouldn’t be helping Trump on a single bill…even if he placates them with what amounts to a jobs program. Not a single vote until ICE is gone and he starts following the law…just for starters.