03-25-2021, 09:40 AM
I just want to be clear on this, too. Not only would an AWB not have any statistically significant impact on crime, it would likely do the same thing we have seen with machine guns (as well as AKs). Putting a ban in place would have to carve out exceptions for those already legally owned, there is just no way around it. If you cut off the supply and cap it where it is at the point of legislation it causes a supply shortage that will cause an increase in costs over the years. What this means is that wealthier individuals will be able to afford these items while the poor, working, and middle classes will be left unarmed. This means it would disproportionately affect lower wealth communities which are already marginalized as it is. I'm not a full-on socialist, so I'm not big on quoting Marx, but "[u]nder no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary."
And this is why gun control is not progressive policy.
And this is why gun control is not progressive policy.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
