• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    No politician wants to change these gun issues so this will continue.

    Because they know that to try would be political suicide. So much of the US population fetishizes gun ownership and makes it a corner stone of their personality that it is basically impossible to change.

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        11 months ago

        Even if a law was passed it would be repealed as soon as a new party was in power or nullified by the supreme court due to the 2nd amendment.

        The 2nd amendment needs to change and that is now impossible.

        The US founding fathers recognised that the constitution would need to be constantly updated as times changed but it has become a holy document and religious text for the cult of USA: The Greatest Country on Earth!!!.

        Multiple other countries have reached the point with their own mass shootings and said enough is enough and restricted firearms. But any outside example is rejected in the USA because the USA is different because (insert trite reason).

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          Even if a law was passed it would be repealed as soon as a new party was in power

          Please stop repeating that. In every democracy in the world the governing parties change every couple of years and they do not simply repeal all the laws passed by the previous government. This is just a stupid excuse used by US parties no to do anything. Why people believe it is beyond me.

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          2nd amendment is fine, it’s the first half of it that’s conveniently ignored and no one seems to care.

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      I don’t think it’s even because of that. About 70% of Americans support measures like psychiatric evaluations or waiting periods, maybe even more. NRA is also not that powerful as a lobbyist, most politicians would be fine without it’s support. The only issue is that it would require some actual work and they wouldn’t gain anything from it and American politicians simply aren’t used to doing anything useful anymore.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah but if that was the case then good laws would have been introduced in the past.

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          There were. Last example I can think of was Obamacare. It was far from true reform but it did help a lot of people. Before that politicians did introduce social security, a lot of civil rights, some environmental policies and so on. It’s not all the laws you have today were introduces 200 years ago. And if you mean gun laws specifically I simply think it wasn’t such a big issue back then. It’s almost like gun issue in US started growing as politics got taken over by corporations and the general decline began.

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      BS, there are plenty of federal politicians who promote gun control, and there are even more state politicians who support it, as evidenced by the 3 states (CO, WA, MD) who passed gun control measures in 2023 alone .

      When you say “no one’s doing this & never will”, you’re completely undermine the people who literally are doing this right now.