• hypercracker [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    have been demonstrated to prevent exactly zero mass shootings

    yeah all those mass shootings that happen in Australia (also a settler country), come on

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      2 months ago

      Did you just ignore the part where I said “in the US”.

      I won’t engage with someone this disingenuous and this is not my first runin with you being totally uninformed.

      If you think they will do that sort of widespread gun ban/buyback program at a federal level in the US I got a bridge to sell you.

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        You can argue along two tracks here:

        1. It is not viable in the US to implement gun control

        2. Gun control is a bad thing or is not effective at reducing shootings

        Clearly (1) is correct but we are on a communist website here, so I’m pretty used to dreaming of a world that is totally untenable in the US. 2 is quite a bit more doubtful. Like guns are the #1 killer of under-18s in this country. That’s a huge fuckin price to pay for doing some kind of revolutionary cosplay.