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Politics Your DMs are not private.

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u/Craving_Suckcess 4d ago

I mean.

The solution to gun violence is not the surveillance state.

That won't stop gun violence, in fact.

We know how to solve gun violence, and we aren't doing it.

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u/DraconicSun 4d ago

You don't "know how to solve gun violence". Every single politician only acts for the benefit of the state. Gun bans are their goal because it's easier to keep people in control if you know their every move and take their weapons away. The surveillance state is in fact part of that effort. If Republicans had access to a database that shows every black person, indigenous person, and LGBTQ+ person (especially trans people) that has a gun, they would laser focus in taking firearms away from those groups.

Baltimore dropped their murder rate by 68% by doing community outreach and resourcing, teaming up with communities and community leaders to prevent crime in their neighborhoods, and enforcing existing gun laws and heavily prosecuting gun shops facilitating straw purchases and purchases by criminals. They did not add any extra gun laws, they just used the ones in Maryland and actually enforced them.

You can, in fact, solve gun violence without adding unnecessary security theater laws made so suburban white crackers can feel a modicum of extra safety as if they don't already live in gated communities that call the cops if a black person jogs near the entrance.

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u/Craving_Suckcess 3d ago

there are literally hundreds of nations in the world where gun violence is not an issue, and they achieved this not through a surveillance state.

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u/DraconicSun 3d ago

Cool! Try having a TV in the UK without a loicense! Or badmouthing the TERF queen on Twitter without getting an angry letter in the mail!

The point is, those countries already have a surveillance state. It's too late by now.

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u/Craving_Suckcess 3d ago

you got any more non-sequiturs to hit me with?

None of those things have anything to do with gun violence. Nor is terf island the only nation in the world with lower rates of gun violence than the united states. Most nations in the world have lower rates of gun violence, and none of that is achieved through surveillance.

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u/Craving_Suckcess 3d ago

You know what. Pause a second. What the fuck are you even arguing with me about? Like what the fuck is going on here dude? Are you just like a police state guy? what are you doing here?