#require safes and create a licensure framework that involves a free but extensive class on both the mechanical and use side of firearms

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If I see one more liberal call for a revolution immediately after calling for a ban on "military style weapons" I'm gonna fucking lose it and start digging a tunnel

Every single jackass who posts that AR-15 versus predator drone meme then posts a picture of Wonder Woman with a sword and says that's how they're gonna defend the right to abortion is a brain dead imbecile

Every single comment about common sense regulations I see is about extra laws that would empower police to decimate inner cities and would never actually get semiautomatic weaponry out of the hands of disillusioned and violent young men. I see no one talking about weapon storage or ways to empower schools to actually get help for these men and I just see people talking about magazine restrictions and banning AR-15s which aren't even the most powerful or most high capacity guns on the market. They're just what's currently ubiquitous because of the military industrial complex and they're about to get replaced by the new SIG 6.8mm rifles. Nobody wants to ban AK-47s even though they're just as easy to acquire and higher caliber. Everyone dismisses gang violence in these conversations like young Black men don't deserve a chance to get out of that hell.

I have so many ideas for policies and regulations for just the firearms side (not even talking UBI and universal healthcare) that would actually solve these massacres and I'm too fucking angry at my friends to even say them because they have to share their stupid fucking Star Wars and Discworld memes to make sure everyone knows how sad they are about another batch of kids dying before they go back to consuming endless streams of Disney content and voting for Democrats who won't lift a finger on this issue.

I have a friend who's not allowed to legally own firearms for a few more years because she was forcibly hospitalized after crashing her car into a tree at night during a suicide attempt that she regretted before the hit happened, and meanwhile her brother has never been hospitalized and still can legally use guns despite ranting and raving in a manic fugue state in his front yard and threatening to kill people while the cops stood there laughing. How the fuck are you going to get every AR-15 off the streets when this is our normal? When cops just let any man light enough keep their guns even against department policy? When schools repeatedly report problem kids and get ignored until after the problem kid has finally shot everyone up? How are you going to stop shootings by banning the sale of only one style of semiautomatic rifle and not doing anything about any other type of gun, or working on any sort of training minimum requirements? Are we gonna talk about how ICE was waiting at the school to arrest any undocumented parents, and how ICE has been implicated in multiple firearms smuggling schemes while using even the slightest suggestion of illegal activity as an excuse to kill any Latino on site, and how undocumented Latino workers often have unregistered firearms because they know cops will not protect them?

23 people are dead. Two adults, 19 kids, and the shooter himself, an 18 year old who was a week away from graduation if his grades were good enough for that. We need a solution, not useless platitudes, and banning exactly one type of gun then calling for a revolution like you have emptily for the past five years is a useless platitude. These are people who hid at home during the BLM protests who think they're gonna change something.

HOW ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE YOUR REVOLUTION WITHOUT WEAPONS?

#raid mom's safe #buy right before the shooting #there are so many things we could do #raise the age for purchasing all guns and not just handguns to 25 #raise that for joining the military too #require safes and create a licensure framework that involves a free but extensive class on both the mechanical and use side of firearms #and on force usage de-escalation legal and moral frameworks and ethics #make testing requirements with a minimum of five years between tests for renewal and make it so taking the test is mandatory time off #make voting that too #all gun stores and ranges and police stations must provide a free and easy to use firearm lockup with no questions asked #domestic violence is an automatic no ownership offense and dv convicts must face tests that are much more thorough than other felons #to get their rights back #and must submit to yearly inspections #part of licensure should frankly be safe storage inspections by non-police legal professionals #safe storage is part of self defense and I'm tired of the 2a community pretending it isn't #i would only accept at home ammo storage restrictions if there was a price cap on ammunition just like there should be for gas #that way it's not a burden to buy a small amount to practice with at the range #and frankly ammo restrictions feel against the idea of labor being armed ala marx #so im still working on that concept #perhaps community ammo banks become a thing #this kid blew fucking $2000 minimum on two daniel defense rifles and 370 rounds of .223 then killed his grandma and shot up a school so #perhaps just restricting the amount you can get in one purchase (again with a price cap) is the way to go #we do occasionally see stockpiler shooters but thats very rare compared to or #from either stores or straw buyers