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Republicans are going to start being in favor of gun control laws if the gun violence pendulum starts swinging in that direction. Not sure if that would be a win or not.
I would say they have a reckoning ahead of them either way because I don't think that the 2nd amendment is actually all that compatible with fascism.
As a universal right it is not, which is one of the reasons they try so hard to make being non-white a felony.
Shame school kids don't have that same lobbying power.
In fairness to CEOs, those schoolkids aren't job creators, so.
Or “donate” money to political campaigns.
Turns out 1 CEO is worth more than all the school children combined.
No they’re going to call for a police state
Gun control is fundamentally a right wing policy. Just because it aligned with *some people's preferred right wing party on a culture war wedge issue doesn't make it right.
Like look at California; the only reason their gun laws are so strict is because they were scared of the Black Panthers doing open carry observation of police. It was a targeted, racist attack on a political movement that was completely bipartisan, because the political class has solidarity with one another against the rest of us.
Like what do *liberals think about abortion bans? Do they reduce the number of abortions? What about drug & alcohol bans? Do they work? We know these things don't actually stop anyone from doing anything, they just make those behaviours more dangerous.
So why do *they think gun bans will actually be effective? Do *they think the cops will actually use it to protect children? They had all the power at Uvalde and they used it to keep parents from saving their kids.
The US is an unprecedentedly violent police state with the largest military, the largest criminal population in history and a fetishistic obsession with guns, of course their children turn to guns to take out their rage. That's what they see modelled all around them.
Edit: removed the words that assume this is the position of the person I'm replying to. I still stand by the points.
Nobody said anything about gun bans. Just gun control laws. I'm also well aware that gun control laws disproportionately affect minorities and I myself am not in favor of strict gun laws. (Though common sense screenings make a lot of sense to me)
I was merely poking fun at the right's pro gun rhetoric and proclivity to completely disregard rhetoric when it inconveniences the rich.
Fair enough, sorry I assumed your position on that.
Do you think bans reduced the amount of drinking & driving, or was it education?
Like you can't just name another thing that you're confident I disagree with and assume I'm going to suddenly support the ban.
You're doing the thing ban advocates always do: "thing bad". Okay, thing bad. So how do we actually, effectively, reduce it? Because bans don't work.
This is a stupid conversation but just so someone cites actual data and not just opinion slapfighting:
Ban
Education
In contrast, an education program that research has shown to be effective simply refers back to the ban itself in the first place, i.e., the You Drink, You Drive, You Lose program was successful, and was focused around informing people that DUI activity will be caught and punished. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ktc_researchreports/244/
In summary, chill out. Both bans and education have contributed to the improvement we see today and your narrative that bans are conservative and somehow ineffective is so easily refuted by the data.
The "since 1982" statistic, unless there's something I'm missing, is literally confusing correlation for causation.
Your other quote on education has a strange emphasis on "short term" changes, especially given that the part regarding bans is talking on the order of decades. Presumably that is a long term effect, yes?
That paper talks a lot about changing social norms and increasing public support for laws. So if laws pass with broad public support, then presumably that broad public support is indicative of a change in social norms which confounds the data. In the end the drink-driving issue is a bad example for this kind of discussion of bans because it's not banning things that the public broadly would otherwise want to do.
Also, the logic that the "high-risk-but-hard-to-reach" group won't be reached by education also supports the notion that they won't be reached by laws either. It makes this point:
The obvious thing that would reach people like this is social pressure, which again is something that requires broad social support, which confounds any notion that bans have any real effect.
Sorry, but you have a bunch of sources but they don't seem to say what you want them to say.
Just so we're clear: you're not going to answer the question about whether it even works?
Why would you care if it's legal if you can't even say that it's an effective measure? If you don't even stand by it to that extent, why are you asking?
I asked you first. And it's not a simple yes/no because without the context of anti-carceral activism the answer won't make any sense, unless you're trying to force me into a false dichotomy devoid of context, which is not a sign of good faith.
I asked you the question first. You won't answer, you just deflected to a question that you now demand I answer. This is going nowhere.
If your point is that you proposed something before I asked you something, I had already proposed that bans are ineffective, which you ignored. You're just trying to control the conversation without listening to my side. I don't know why I'd bother with that. Someone else tried to at least answer the question, so you're no longer needed here.
Edit: it's one thing to delete all your comments in the thread, but to then edit your comments so that I can't even see them in my inbox is another entirely. I guess they agreed they were no longer needed.