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You can trace modern firearms prohibitions to civil-rights-era California with the intent of disarming the Black Panthers, so I oppose prohibitions on the groun
by Lammy 6y ago
You can trace modern firearms prohibitions to civil-rights-era California with the intent of disarming the Black Panthers, so I oppose prohibitions on the grounds that I personally view them as inherently racist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
- addicted 6y agoExcept no one is demanding prohibition.
- zepto 6y agoNobody except for the many people right here in this thread who are demanding prohibition. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26455341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26455341
- ericb 6y agoI'm not sure I see a demand anywhere in that comment?
- zepto 6y agoThere is no valid distinction between ‘demanding’ and ‘arguing for’ in this context.
- ericb 6y agoThere certainly is. I can point out that a world without guns would have zero deaths from guns without advocating that the world should be without guns.
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- zepto 6y agoYou can, but then you wouldn’t be arguing for anything. This is therefore irrelevant to any distinction between “arguing for” and “demanding”.
- ralusek 6y agoYou should probably oppose or support restrictions in accordance with whether or not they make sense, irrespective of the debatable motives of their inception. In regards to the motives of their inception, it seems like a bit of leap to go from "armed black militias patrolling streets" and "an organized band of men armed with loaded firearms [...] entered the Capitol on May 2, 1967" to then saying that the resulting anti-gun legislation was necessarily inherently racist. Every time a white kid shoots up a school and it leads to further gun restrictions, do you assume that this is because of legislator's anti-whiteness? Almost every school shooter/mass shooter is white, and there have been all sorts of gun restrictions imposed as a consequence of these events. In fact, wasn't there JUST a band of mostly white men who entered the Capitol, which has also led to suggestions for increased legislation against firearms? Is the resulting legislation that comes from that going to be anti-white?
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- Bancakes 6y agoEvery school shooter has a serious untreated mental illness which is the more likely cause.
- rayhendricks 6y agoAlso officially signed into law by then California Governor Ronald Reagan.
- the_only_law 6y agoWith support from the NRA too!