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Yes, you have correctly identified the prerequisite societal change that must be made before passing gun control legislation that would infringe this hypothetic
by cwkoss 5y ago
Yes, you have correctly identified the prerequisite societal change that must be made before passing gun control legislation that would infringe this hypothetical person's access to firearms.
It is frustrating to frequently see white suburbanites with a savior complex rallying for gun control while never addressing the reasons why gun ownership rates are higher in underserved and rural communities: because the police do not adequately protect these populations. That political energy would be much better spent on fixing the root of the problem rather than they symptom of it.
- robcohen 5y ago> fixing the root of the problem The issue I have with this line of thinking is that you are assuming this is fixable at all. What are you going to do, place a police station on every farm to market road in America? Another way of putting this -- when seconds count, remember that police are only minutes away.
- cwkoss 5y agoYeah, even if we permanently solved crime somehow, dealing with aggressive large predator wildlife is another oversight of national level gun control absolutists. Assuming we want to continue allow humans to camp in the wilderness, I think we should allow people in remote areas to have guns as a last resort protection measure.