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On a side note, I still can't get used to how wanting to restrict access to guns is considered a "liberal" stance.
by falcor84 1y ago
On a side note, I still can't get used to how wanting to restrict access to guns is considered a "liberal" stance.
- AndroTux 1y agoThe freedom to not have to fear death when going to school comes to mind. You know, like everywhere else in the western world.
- lmf4lol 1y agoWell, in Europe you get stabbed. Or hit deliberately by a car. Or just thrown before an incoming train. Shit happens everywhere... what's the difference? And we also have school shootings in Europe. Less than USA, granted! But they exist.
- dctoedt 1y agohttps://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-homicide-rates-in-the-u-s-vs-europe-2000-2020/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-homicide-rates-in-t...
- falcor84 1y agoThe typical political axis is liberty/freedom on one end vs. safety/security on the other end. And this is exactly one of those cases where having the liberty to bear arms reduces safety.
- rdiddly 1y agoTwo-party system only offers two buckets to put issues in.
- Telemakhos 1y agoWords have never had stable definitions in politics. Thucydides wrote about that over two thousand years ago, and nothing has charged or will change in that regard.