personally i don't understand the southern hardcore republicans who keep arguing that their (nearly) military grade rifles are more important to them than the lives of students/innocent bystanders. to a canadian this is all fucked to me
i am a southern minarchist on certain days, or complete voluntaryist on others, never voted for an R (pls dont make fun of me for voting R that 1 time). lets get into this, i'll spare u a roasting on twitter :^)
so firstly, your premise that there is a zero-sum equation stating that the citizenry of the U.S. can EITHER a) own semi-automatic rifles that bear strong resemblance to military hardware or b) experience a near-complete diminishment of "school shootings", gun violence, mass murder, et cetera is very flawed. in like 2010, there were 300+ million private firearms in the United States; some sort of manufacturing ban, purchase ban, extended tax stamp preventing middle/lower class from buying rifles, or any other measure would be ineffective at preventing your average citizen from obtaining a firearm and ammunition. the only somewhat effective measure would be a very strict clamp-down on ammunition purchasing and manufacturing, simultaneous restrictions on powder/reloading supplies, i would imagine. not THAT many people stockpile ammo, so completely disregarding political feasibility of such a measure, that'd be the only real way to even begin such a thing.
second, your premise implies that any individual located in the same nation as a murderer, also possessing a firearm(s) bears responsibility for the murderer's actions or at least partial responsibility for his capability. i find this implication (intentional or not) loathesome.
third, you've got the common "u just have to fix mental health!" or "just make some1 pass a mental health exam to buy a gun!!!" arguments that, as a pseudoscience major with a couple brain cells, makes me livid. the entire argument assumes that, in order for an individual to commit mass murder, they must be mentally ill. murderers are placed in prison all the time for their actions- only very occasionally are they subject to being labeled insane. why mass murderers? do people think its so implausible for a rare person to know EXACTLY what they are doing, be in full control of their faculties, not depressed, capable of empathy and not sociopathic- and still kill their peers en masse?
its easier to think of such inhumane monsters as crazy, of course. more natural, maybe. everyone is so emotional, crying for "someone" to "do something", they can't even fathom the logistics of the shit.
Ok, so now as a society we've decided that we will empower some new organization or give an existing organization the power to detain minors and adults with impunity- if they are determined to be "high risk" to their peers. That's what we're fucking talking about, you know. They gonna lock up every 16 year old that doodles some slavshit rifle because he's bored and talks about CSGO in class? They gonna stuff every kid that goes on imageboards and elsewhere and laughs at tragedy in a van?
And say that this exists- what the FUCK do you DO with a kid that has been detained for being a suspected future shooter? Detain him indefinately? Have a bunch of shrinks poke and prod his psyche, feed him psychotropic cocktails until they decide that he ain't gonna go blast folk? Yeah, right.
ok so thats basically why it would be ineffective at stopping mass murder scenarios in a rambling nutshell. now here's for the thing that'll really rake your leafs u canuck
Even if, hypothetically, it were magically insured that restricting access to firearms for the population would significantly reduce instances of mass murder (children or otherwise), I would still not support such measures. Firstly, I feel that the safety of one's self and one's family is that individual's responsibility; also the responsibility of kin, neighbors, community, etc. I cannot support our disarmament. Second, I feel that the public school system is babbies' very first institutionalization and generally harmful in many aspects..and more morbidly, these 4k population schools make target rich environments for scum. Third, any given non-murderous individual owning firearms bears NO moral responsibility for the actions of an unassociated individual. If the butcher's bill was 2x higher, 5x higher, 10x higher, my position would not change. Understand thats very odd, or even disturbing to others. More than happy to explain it in more detail anytime.
And anyway, children in this country are far more likely to be slaughtered by local security forces than by lone maniacs, islamofascists, white supremacists, or commies put together.
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