The issue is that a lot of people (correctly, mind you) just want to ban firearms. But for incredibly stupid reasons, that isn't on the table. So we end up in esoterica.
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I think this is a lot of it, but also a lot of people who think there shouldn’t be any restrictions on firearms but won’t admit that.
aug 29, 2025, 5:07 pm • 3 0 • view
I think it's more important to note that a lot of the neuroses and fear that drives media to be so inexplicably pro Trump is because they know that one side has the guns and is capable of stochastic terrorism, and the other side doesn't. This causes more harm in the aggregate than libs arming up
aug 29, 2025, 5:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, it sucks, but having a war started on you also sucks, and you are obligated to resist and not just let them roll over you
aug 29, 2025, 5:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm really fucking tired of having to be evil to teach everyone that evil is bad. I get that it's arguably necessary. But it is also incredibly fucking stupid. Why must we treat them as they do us for them to learn that they do evil?
aug 29, 2025, 5:40 pm • 3 1 • view
Because the devil is in their hearts
aug 29, 2025, 5:46 pm • 1 0 • view
been saying this bsky.app/profile/sky....
aug 29, 2025, 5:15 pm • 8 0 • view
It *is* a technical issue, though. Like, Americans *are* just violent. But guns are a force multiplier, and that's bad. Also, this isn't just *a* cultural issue. It's ultimately a conflict between two very different cultures.
aug 29, 2025, 5:19 pm • 7 0 • view
So yeah. It's a mess because people come at it from very different values and millieus. And the actual core debate is impossible to resolve because SCOTUS (and Founders, but mostly SCOTUS) idiocy.
aug 29, 2025, 5:21 pm • 5 0 • view
I mean it's specifically a cultural issue around the guns and placing lots of dangerous instrumentalities in the hands of lots of people who cannot handle them.
aug 29, 2025, 5:24 pm • 3 0 • view
I agree that most proposed regulations are not doing a great job dealing with it, we basically need to reduce the number of privately owned guns, especially handguns and registration doesn't really do that.
aug 29, 2025, 5:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Haven't figured out the political economy part, since I am bad at political economy, but I'd impose mandatory no fault insurance on all privately owned guns and make refusing to insure your gun a big boy felony in addition to the strict civil liability for anything that gun ever does.
aug 29, 2025, 5:34 pm • 3 0 • view
hmm if the liberals peeked at gun culture they're notice how many of the epic black rifle guys are just doing school shooter drills
aug 29, 2025, 7:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Gun culture scares the shit out of me. The most normal people are the cowboy action guys. (With love to the history dorks, there's a lot of nazis and whenwes who lurk in the shadows thataway.)
aug 29, 2025, 7:26 pm • 6 0 • view
going to any "gun show" to find that it's just a nazi memorabilia & reproductions show instead
aug 29, 2025, 7:51 pm • 3 0 • view