I wanted to share an article but after read/scanned ~6 of them - I had nothing to share. They weren’t any good. I wish blogs were still a thing. Blogs can be excellent on topics like these. Here’s the Wikipedia page - Columbine High School massacre.

  • ingirumimus [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Also love the take that anyone in power in America who proposes gun control is only concerned about disarming the working class, not maybe stopping children from getting slaughtered in schools. Like yeah mental health services would be great but also there is absolutely a connection between the number of mass shootings and the fact that America has more guns than people

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      7 months ago

      Ok, what gun control measures should we put in place that would stop “children getting slaughtered in schools” while also not giving the government a total monopoly on violence?

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        7 months ago

        The government already has a monopoly on violence and it’s a joke to pretend otherwise. In the event of an armed revolution, private firearm ownership won’t stop them rolling in tanks or bombing you with jets.

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          7 months ago

          “We should just give up since it’s hopeless anyway”

          No. I think you should look to history to understand what happens when a professional military tries to occupy hostile territory. Asymmetric warfare is impossible to extinguish. The Palestinians are holding their own in a tiny city with AKs, tunnels, and homemade explosives. The Taliban now control all of Afghanistan. The Vietnamese pushed the US into the sea. An armed populace is impossible to repress, especially when it’s as armed as US citizens are, and when the territory that needs to be held is as massive as the US. There is absolutely no way the US military could indefinitely suppress the US civilian population while still maintaining the production necessary to fuel it’s war machine.

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      7 months ago

      Also love the take that anyone in power in America who proposes gun control is only concerned about disarming the working class

      He’s not exactly wrong though, since gun control historically in the US was a lot more about taking guns out of the hands of PoC. One modern case was in California with the Mulford Act, which came about because the Black Panthers showed off the the thing whites fear the most has and still will be black people open carrying guns.