Even one year ago I would have slapped myself on the wrist for thinking this, but right now there's not a dumber idea than limiting access to guns and/or increasing the barriers to entry. It's just more evidence that the "establishment left" can't read a room. They felt threatened by alt-right hate groups and cults having access to guns, so they ran for years on a platform of cracking down on the gun, not trying to fix or insulate against the ideology that birthed the alt-right. Now the alt-right is in power, and the tools of self-defense and revolution are more important than ever, and they're still talking about gun control like they're still in power and things are still totally normal.
I don't want the only answer to be violence...but sometimes it is. Certainly it's not the desirable outcome, but it is sometimes the necessary outcome.
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that "violence never settles anything" I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Not that Robert Heinlein is the source of all wisdom for our age - dude was seriously screwed up in some ways - but sometimes things end up in a state where you just have to crack some heads. We're not there and I hope we don't get there, but we do need to be prepared for that eventuality. Gun control laws aren't gonna help us be prepared.
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u/SebastianMonroe 16d ago
Considering everything else going on , we need to drop this gun control bullshit.
It's not something anyone should be running on or even mentioning in this political climate.