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All of the anarchists and socialists and marginalized and oppressed communities are on the left. Their arguments against gun ownership and the second amendment
by krapp 1y ago
All of the anarchists and socialists and marginalized and oppressed communities are on the left. Their arguments against gun ownership and the second amendment were never based on an implicit trust in government.
- kcplate 1y agoWell it was definitely a talking point of the mainstream left.
- happytoexplain 1y agoCertainly not - their argument was always that it doesn't make sense to argue that we need guns to overthrow the government. Not that the government is broadly trustworthy.
- krapp 1y agotbh "we can now trust our government to not overstep its authority and people protecting themselves against tyranny was no longer needed" sounds like an intentional misrepresentation of a leftist position than something many actual leftists would believe.
- kcplate 1y agoThe political side that that often argues for more government in their political solutions seems to by default to trust the government “to not overstep its authority”?
- esseph 1y agoThe "mainstream left" isn't real, it's a manufactured facet. Look at the number of historically communist or socialist countries with an AK-47/74/AKM on their flag.
- modo_mario 1y ago>and marginalized and oppressed communities are on the left That's far from true and universal.