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It’s not a real problem that young Men are angry at their country. When Grandmothers start joining in and saying the same stuff, it’s a sure sign that the coming years might figure in someone’s history textbook.
I wasn’t aware of those wide scale push backs. All good things.
If I were playing for the other team and in charge of it, I would push to change the cultural and legal/financial environment first.
Culturally I would create messages that target gun owners themselves focusing around messages that divide guns into “normal home defense” basically nothing above a pistol or shotgun, and “grown men playing pretend” and make this population the butt of jokes. Creating the idea of “acceptable” guns for “acceptable” reasons.
Legally/financially it’d be so simple I’m surprised it hasn’t been done already. Continue the CDC studying gun violence and liken it to smoking, and tax firearms absurd amounts. Pair this with legal changes to allow sueing of not only gun manufacturers, but gun stores themselves, financially target the supply chain.
On the actual gun confiscation side, you don’t actually have to go out and physically get the guns, you just offer an ongoing buy back for guns you receive. So when you die and your supply gets given to your Son who now identifies as a xir, xer will then just immediately and dutifully turn them in.
The second part is simply to make particular components illegally incrementally, the Trump bump stock ban is a great idea. If you owned one, now you have an illegal firearm and any contact you have with law enforcement has the chance to get hit with federal weapon charges. Gun laws act as a filter, slowly collecting over time. Anyone in charge would be a fool to actually organize “gun confiscation raids”
That's what I would do if reducing guns in American's hands was my goal.
There’s still plenty of firearms in Australia, right now we’re having a big media propaganda push about turning in illegal firearms if you know of them. This is only taking place 25 years after the original laws were put in place.
This is a weird post to make in a thread about Covid. But we live in weird times.
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