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[–] seahorse@midwest.social 44 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I half agree with his gun regulation stance. While ideally there would be more caution given to who owns guns that is unfortunately not the world americans have been living in the last 80 years or so. The fascists have guns, lots of them, and I'm not giving mine up while they have them.

[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah the gun law regulators generally ignore the fact that everyone and their grandma already has guns. And those with guns are not willing to do trade in programs.

I’d like to see better psych eval and requiring to re-license every so often. That should start steering the country in the right direction. Of course I don’t see this happening any time soon.

[–] jiml78@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The US has no chance of passing anything around licensing of firearms in the short term. We can only hope that Gen Z votes all the gun nuts out of office.

[–] drwho@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

They can vote against the ammosexuals all they want. Many politicians get money from firearms companies, though, on both sides of the fence, and they all know which side their bread is buttered on.

[–] stankbucket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not much of that matters if you can't get 2/3 of the states to get in line with your re-write and we can't get 2/3 of the people to agree on anything. Also, there is a wide swath of opinion between what you call "gun nuts" and what other people call "common sense laws." Very few people are arguing that "any moron with a pulse" should have a gun.

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