I'll also add some recs:
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible - Kindle edition by Cobb Jr., Charles E. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading This Nonviolent...
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I had to hit up eBay for this one, thank you for the recommendation!
I have definitely come around on guns recently. I wouldn't be opposed to sweeping gun control if it meant the police were completely demilitarized (alongside all the other radical changes to our society that you suggested). But as it stands I don't see the gun culture of this country changing or the guns getting out of the ecosystem.
Personally I'd love to live in a world where we don't have guns and we can vote in socialism but sadly we don't live in that world.
This is the other thing too many people ignore. There are a lot of guns in this country, some were years and years of wanting something fancy, others were grandpa's war trophy taken from a fallen German in WWI, others were a great aunts whole reason for still being alive in the face of a home invasion, there are a myriad reasons people might not want to give something up. I mean, does anyone really think someone like me would just hand over my MP5? Like, my actual, real, made in Germany by HK MP5 that has been something I'd been wanting since I saw Die Hard when I was like 9? Fuck no, "Sorry, idk where it went, I lost it in a boating accident, bye!". That thing cost me close to four grand after registering it as an SBR and throwing an optic on it. I love it and I love the rich history behind the platform and what made it an icon. Same with my SIG P49 and my Manurhin MR73, the weird expensive guns no one's heard of. Even more pedestrian ones like my Imperial P08 and rearsenaled SMLE have wonderful histories behind them with many books to go with them. Long time goals like that aren't just gonna be handed over.
I will argue gun culture is changing in the best way, there's a lot more pushback towards the generic right wing fuckboy that used to be what defined gun ownership, I don't keep my mouth shut about my opinions around other gun owners anymore because I'm not alone. Far left liberal gun owner is only a foreign concept in the most devout anti-gun echo chambers.
There are some hot takes in this thread, and yet, we are all getting along well. Why can't it always be this way with discourse?
I'll admit I posted that expecting a dog pile, because even just a year ago admitting to being pro gun was asking to get shit on around here. I'm enjoying this discourse and seeing the many different opinions here, and most are not just drive-by posts. There's thought put into many of them. I appreciate and understand many of these view points, regardless of weather or not I personally agree.
Anti-gun sentiment is not in and of itself "left".
No lies detected.
