Are you for or against stricter gun control laws and do stricter gun control laws make it harder for a proletariat revolution?
Are you for or against stricter gun control laws and do stricter gun control laws make it harder for a proletariat revolution?
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I am for stricter gun control laws
I've already effort commented why before so I'm not gonna do it again but this APL article mirrors most of the same opinions I hold though I had a more data driven analysis of it and didn't consider to argue against Marx's "under no pretext" quote
https://redphoenixnews.com/2023/08/18/clearing-the-air-on-infantile-u-s-gun-culture-marx-revisited/
It is worth noting here that most violent attacks committed by these fanatics are overwhelmingly aimed at oppressed minorities such as Black Americans, Latinos, and various Asian communities, as well as women, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with disabilities. ... the working class struggle demands, in relation to firearms, that the focus be on curtailing the prevalence of mass shootings and gun-related violence that disproportionately affects various minority communities
this is the grossest part of that article's awful argument. I hear over and over from american trans ppl just the most extreme possible reluctance to call the cops, if that's even an option at all in a dangerous situation. we can't depend on the police so who will protect us from violence? literally who??
getting on the lib treadmill of arguing over which types of guns are scary enough to regulate does fuck all to help us. rightoids are already armed to the teeth and we're not. the article calls gun culture infantile, that's pure libshit we need a stronger queer gun culture to save lives, you shoot the guy trying to hurt you you don't bat your eyelashes at the fash in blue uniforms and hope they'll help
and the argument that we're not in the right phase yet to start having guns is based on just nothing. the phase we're in is a gun ownership rate of 1.2 guns per american. it would be like trying to regulate breathing air, enforcement would just fall on the most vulnerable people. I talked to a black homeless guy whose prized possession was a glock 19. every night he slept on cardboard boxes behind the store where he worked and when someone would invade his space and wouldn't leave he'd just pull up his shirt and show it to them and they'd leave him alone, and it gave him so much peace of mind. idgaf about reassuring people in oxford shirts that we're doing enough to address "the gun epidemic," my heart bursts for the most marginalized who are constantly vulnerable to violence, can't depend on the police, and stand to gain nothing from taking away their access to guns
I'm pretty sure stricter gun control laws almost always mean tighter restrictions on semi-automatic rifles, which the article mentions btw
Handguns make sense for self defense and I'm all for that black homeless man having a glock
I don't see any reason how something like an AR would make sense for self defense. They're unwieldy, heavy, takes more training, can't be concealed, etc. but it's amazing if you wanna conduct a mass shooting
anyone can 3d print a little autosear to make their glock 19 magdump in a couple of seconds, or print high capacity magazines with a set of springs from amazon, I doubt that adding hurdles around especially deadly features would deter many planned mass shootings
also the article talks generally about gun control and only uses ar-15s as an area of particular concern, e.g. here's another of their articles:
continue to struggle for regulations on gun sales, background checks, and the types of weapons that can be purchased within the bourgeois-democratic system on both the state and federal levels, especially reforms that ban high powered assault-rifles like the AR-15, extended magazines, high powered munitions, and that strengthen background checks and extend waiting periods
background checks filter out people who the discriminatory and fundamentally broken criminal justice system has decided are undesirables. I'm not a felon myself but I still have to attest under penalty of perjury that I've never been committed to a mental institution which is uhh. and short waiting periods are a good thing. the last time someone physically hurt me I was reeling and terrified and stayed in my car sleeping in parking lots bc I didn't want to be anywhere he might find me until I could get a gun to protect myself. my state was so real for having a really short waiting period and I'll always oppose lengthening it
Wow that's insane I didn't know you could 3d print attachments for handguns like that
For the record I don't agree with everything the article says, especially the background checks on all arms
I generally just agree on banning semi-automatics, though if widespread knowledge of how to make a handgun more deadly then it would not be very helpful
Fyi you can 3d print entire firearms, with all the non-printed parts easily available at a hardware store or shipped to your front door.