• pbjamm@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Plus us as individuals can’t determine what other large groups can and cannot have. We don’t have the same life experiences.

    Us as a collective do so all the time. It is a totally normal activity in a society. Nations other than the USA have successfully done this with guns. There is no reason the USA could not do the same except will power.

    The rest of your paranoid what-if scenarios are not a valid reason for everyone to have access to unlimited firepower.

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      1 year ago

      Well we are also not other countries. We have different culture, socio economic makeup, different population distribution, and different history. Something that works in another country isn’t guaranteed to work here.

      I think a key reason why nothing will ever change is because moderates offer “hey we can do mental health checks, bans on ownership for people convicted of violent crimes, and mandatory wait times” to meet in the middle and compromise but both sides don’t want to do that.

      Just a symptom of how polarized the nation is. Until we fix that, nothing will ever change.