There are 20-million modern sporting rifles in private hands, yet 2x as many Americans are murdered each year by someone using their fists or feet than a rifle of any kind.
Trying to ban and arrest our way to safety a) doesn’t work and b) violates our civil rights.
Trying to ban and arrest our way to safety a) doesn’t work and b) violates our civil rights.
https://twitter.com/mansoortshams/status/1380266615413993472
I realize some people don’t give a shit about 2), but we should all care about the first part, particularly when we know strategies that are far more effective at reducing violent crime without any new gun control laws.
As for the “this is how we did it in the Marines” argument, we don’t live on a nationwide military base. Civilians simply have more freedom than active duty soldiers, including freedom of speech and the right to keep & bear arms. We can talk about expanding rights of soldiers...
... but “soldiers aren’t allowed to do it” is a piss-poor argument for restricting the rights of the People. Not interested in going down that road.
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