The funny thing is that Progressives understand the fight for increase in rights. They live for it. So why is a gun owners rights different? Can they at least start to understand the intensity of the desire to protect their rights. Can we start the dialogue there?
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The overall answer is socioeconomic equality. Universal healthcare (inc mental healthcare), ending the war on drugs, ending foreign warfare (8000 firearm suicides per year are veterans with PTSD; 22/day), etc. The core of my belief system is that most people are good... 1/2
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I believe the overwhelming majority of people are good. So, hypothetically, if everyone were armed, *way* more good people would be armed than bad people. Socioeconomic equality has 100% correlation to gun homicides. Gun-ownership rates have little correlation. 2/2pic.twitter.com/Z6Cwd56swl
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So, this is a socio-economic argument, not a gun rights argument? Interesting data.
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Yes, I believe it is. And pardon me if I seem cynical (I think you’re familiar with people accused of cynicism), but I believe Democrats push the gun narrative to scare the public and secure votes just as Republicans do. They don’t want to fix it. They want to use it to win.
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I believe that it is a very human trait to use fear to win arguments. This is why looking at our unconscious biases is so important. I think also that some Dems really see too many guns as THE problem too, no? It feels logical - more guns, more violence.
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Seems logical except the numbers don’t correlate, and then the Bloomberg anti-gun lobby cherry-picks “peer countries” to intentionally mislead on that point. I’m a data person. Anybody proposing legislation should be good at analyzing data. Plus, guns are inanimate objects.
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So are cigarettes. Curious, does the data support less access to cigarettes due to high taxes, age limitations WITH education about harmful effects having lowered the death rates due to smoking?
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Education is how you effectively ban *anything*. Prohibition of any good or service for which there’s a market always results in more violence rather than less. The key is to kill the market, and you can only do that with education. Make people not *want* whatever it is.pic.twitter.com/qkVkXTWzx8
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But it feels like education around this issue is so complicated. is it about gun safety, mental health, socio-economic, public safety? And then add in gun/anti-gun lobbyists who stranglehold the conversation, I wonder where we'd start in this effort.
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Don’t forget video games and rap music.
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