Statesian here. There are a CRAPTON of mass shootings here. If we do nothing about guns, the shootings will still happen. What is the leftist answer for reducing mass shootings without disarming the proletariat?
Statesian here. There are a CRAPTON of mass shootings here. If we do nothing about guns, the shootings will still happen. What is the leftist answer for reducing mass shootings without disarming the proletariat?
I mean, it would probably alert someone that you’re planning on doing a mass shooting. Which is the point, yeah? If we know it’s going to happen, it probably won’t? Because you can be like “Uh, I think Josh is going to do a mass shooting at a school, we shouldn’t let him into the community armoury for the next while.”
If you want to both have a civil militia AND low gun crime, you’ll probably have to do this (and also have low poverty/inequality etc etc).
This would be true because militias don’t mean everyone has a gun, or every type of gun, say at their bedside or residence, right? Having open access is still a kind of ownership.
Yeah, it would be like… Each block or group of blocks has a community armoury. Periodically everyone goes to a range and practices, but other than range days and maintenance, there wouldn’t be much use. The point would be to remove the weapons from contexts where even “personal defence” could be raised, but still allowing the community to defend itself. There’d be a few trusted individuals in the community who have the keys to the armoury (maybe vote on it?), and breaking in would be an endeavour. Technically, there’s a gun that’s your gun (if that’s what people want), but when the bombs start falling everyone gets one and you can kinda sort it out from there.
More rural areas would have different systems for pest control etc, as they currently do.
I do agree with the other answers on here too. Big cultural shifts, clamping down on ideologies that promote “mass shooting” as a tactic etc
Very interesting. Could I ask where I could read more about this, like an introductory text or something considered an important work?
No idea, it was the result of a bunch of discussions about what arming the proletariat and community defence might practically mean.
I imagine other people have had similar thoughts and I’m far from the most well read here.