• Alteon@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Every other country has a FRACTION OF A FRACTION of the amount of shootings that we do, and you have the gall to sit there and go “none of what you said or propose will stop someone”, when politicians and gun control groups have literally proposed NUMEROUS extremely common sense fixes to help curb the violence. It’s fucking loons like you that rally against it ad nauseum because “DeMs CuMmInG fEr MuH gUnS!1!”. You’re nothing but a gun lobbyists mouthpiece who would rather let kids get killed so you can keep an overpowered AR than try LITERALLY anything to help alleviate the situation.

    No one is coming for my shotgun, or my handgun, or my hunting rifle. Literally no one will ever pass a law that will ban those. Red flag laws WORK. Mandatory withholding periods WORK. Banning AR weapons and bump stocks would be a step in the right direction. Pushing these laws on a federal level would help. Would it stop everything? No, but it would provide a LOT more opportunities to catch someone before it happens.

    Fuck, do something to help our kids, don’t be the barrier that makes it more difficult.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Lol and you’re a mouth piece for emotional ignorance…you even saying no one is touching your handguns when 95% of all gun deaths are via handguns…rifles of all kinds are around 3% of all gun deaths, and then the AR style rifles make up around 50 deaths a year…50…more kids are killed by being punched and kicked to death by an order of magnitude 10xs the amount done via AR pattern rifles.

      Wanna actually do something to help, stop focusing on guns, you’re not going to stop the violence that way. Focus on:

      We can start with:

      • Single payer healthcare

      • Ending the War on Drugs

      • Ending Qualified immunity

      • Properly funding our schools and not just rich white suburb schools.

      • Build more schools and hire more teachers for proper pay so the class room sizes aren’t 30-40 kids for one teacher.

      • UBI (at least start talking about it) once AI takes over most of the blue collar jobs.

      • End for profit prisons

      • Enforce the laws already on the books

      • Make sure there are safety nets for poor families so the kids don’t turn to violence/gangs to survive.

      • Increase the minimum wage

      • Recreate our mental healthcare so kids don’t turn to the internet for support. And to help veterans not end up as a suicide number.

      • Actively make a law to solidify Pro-choice rights. More unwanted children do not help our situation.

      • Banning Insider Trading for Congress

      • Term limits

      • Ranked Choice Voting so we can move away from a 2 party system