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> Kids used to be taught gun safety in public school The problem is that this normalizes the behavior, something that a specific political sect (coincidentally
by 15155 11mo ago
> Kids used to be taught gun safety in public school
The problem is that this normalizes the behavior, something that a specific political sect (coincidentally overlapping heavily with those employed in education) desperately wants to avoid.
- xboxnolifes 11mo agoWhich is somewhat odd to me. Why wouldn't they want to normalize and emasculate gun usage? That seems to be the general playbook of the US Left to change behavior. Of all of the big Democrat vs Republican wedge issues, gun rights seems like one that is being approached entirely wrong.
- 15155 11mo ago> Why wouldn't they want to normalize and emasculate gun usage? Because it isn't emasculating - it's very much empowering - and anyone who has ever fired a gun or read a history book written in the last 200 years can't be deluded into thinking otherwise.
- xboxnolifes 11mo agoIm not saying firing a weapon is emasculating. I'm saying you can reduce the toxic masculinity aspect of gun ownership through cultural enforcement. Safe gun use can be taught strictly with respect for the dangers of mishandling guns (even intentionally) enforced. In other words, make gun ownership normal, understood, and uncool.
- 15155 11mo ago> toxic masculinity aspect of gun ownership through cultural enforcement This presumes that this is actually the (an) issue. > In other words, make gun ownership normal, understood, and uncool. Normal is the issue: you can't subjugate a widely-armed population.