• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    We can start with:

    • Single payer healthcare

    • Ending the War on Drugs

    • Ending Qualified immunity

    • Properly funding our schools and not just rich white suburb schools.

    • Build more schools and hire more teachers for proper pay so the class room sizes aren’t 30-40 kids for one teacher.

    • UBI (at least start talking about it) once AI takes over most of the blue collar jobs.

    • End for profit prisons

    • Enforce the laws already on the books

    • Make sure there are safety nets for poor families so the kids don’t turn to violence/gangs to survive.

    • Increase the minimum wage

    • Recreate our mental healthcare so kids don’t turn to the internet for support. And to help veterans not end up as a suicide number.

    • Actively make a law to solidify Pro-choice rights. More unwanted children do not help our situation.

    • Banning Insider Trading for Congress

    • Term limits

    • Ranked Choice Voting so we can move away from a 2 party system

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      11 months ago

      So basically… Fix every other nearly impossible to fix problem first before even deciding to do anything about the actual guns, if anything at all?

      And to be clear, by impossible to fix, I mean politically, not that these problems are actually unsolvable.

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        11 months ago

        So you’re plan is to try and tackle something that’s written into the constitution… that’s your goal? Say it’s nearly impossible to do everything else on that list which isn’t written into our constitution…but guns… they’re easier to fix…fucking hell you all are really naive.

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          So you’re plan is to try and tackle something that’s written into the constitution… that’s your goal?

          You mean like slavery?

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            11 months ago

            Are you equating slavery to owning firearms? You white privileged ivory tower types are hilarious.

        • OrangeJoe@lemm.ee
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          11 months ago

          I didn’t specify a plan one way or another. I just think it’s crazy that the talking points you presented seem pretty clearly designed to just kick this issue down the road, cause at least that way you still get to have your guns.

          And believe me, solving all those things you mentioned would be great. But why not also try and do something about the major gun issues at the same time too?

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            11 months ago

            Those “talking points” would solve our firearm violence. We don’t have a gun problem, we have a societal one. Random mass shootings are a new phenomenon…gang violence and drug violence are not. Solving these things with the list I posted, would curb our violence epidemic 100xs more than just another emotional gun law from people who don’t understand guns.

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              11 months ago

              We do have a societal problem. We also very much have a gun problem.

              And proposing all these other things you know won’t get accomplished is a way to shift all the responsibility away from the gun issue itself.

              And you aren’t being emotional about even the thought of some more gun control or anything to even tackle that issue head on? Come on.

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                11 months ago

                It might be because I’m not delusional about why we have the violence in the first place. I’m proposing things that actually would make a difference, another AWB or mag cap/mag ban/etc is emotional policies that will not put a single dent in our gun violence… I’m not the one kicking the can down the road, you are.

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                  11 months ago

                  I personally didn’t propose any of those policies. I genuinely don’t know what would work best. I just think you are being really transparent in treating the guns themselves as having nothing to do with the issue of gun violence.

                  I think everything you were saying would be great to accomplish. It’s just really disingenuous to propose them knowing there is a slim chance any of them will happen while completely ignoring the actual guns, just because you want to keep your guns.

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                    11 months ago

                    The statistics and other countries show that violence is mainly driven by poverty and ignorance. Work on those two main things, and you slow the violence.

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      11 months ago

      Lol fantastic response. And its crickets from everyone else being critical

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      Those are all fantastic suggestions. In my opinion we absolutely should be taking much more drastic measures to decrease school shootings in the meantime, as nearly everything you suggest would still take at least ~15-20 years to see results. Any dead kid is too many and there are way too many school shootings.

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      11 months ago

      And you can end with bringing your gun regulations up to speed to every other developed nation.