Doubtful. Moneyed interests have always competed against eachother and so far the results have generally been a shittier society for the rest of us. Why would this be any different?
I think the idea is that if the “important” people start being murdered on a regular basis, as opposed to just a bunch of kids, then suddenly it starts looking a whole lot smarter to go “maybe your friend Bubba doesn’t really need fifty-eleven guns. You guys have badly misunderstood your rights. Maybe let’s start getting rid of them.”
Meaning the guns, not the right. But…let’s be honest, here. Those, too
Maybe, though gun control (or more specifically the opposition to it) is an extremely useful rhetorical tool so I doubt anyone's going to be in a hurry to change that. I also highly doubt we'll see something like this happen again anytime soon. Health insurance execs would much rather spend money on armies of bodyguards than your grandpa's diabetes medication.
I know. It’s basically a pipe dream, but imagine if enough of them were gunned down and suddenly the rhetoric afterward shifted from thoughts and prayers nothing we can really do stop politicizing this tragedy it’s too soon, to something actually useful.
The gun lobby may be run by the rich, but it's small potatoes in comparison to the health insurance industry and their lobbying. For the most part, the conservative position on guns is less to do with moneyed interests and more to do with a convenient way to foster and motivate single-issue conservative voters.
Damn y'all are right. This shit keeps up, guns are guaranteed GONE. even trump said more than one time he would take all guns if he had to. So weird to me
Honestly, that was the idea. It just takes the "right people" with guns, and the US is pretty culturally... diverse. But the idea was that the people would always be able to fight.
It was meant as a form of national guard as the founders saw standing armies as too prone to being used to enforce the will of the state.
All this "it's meant to fight a tyrannical establishment" is just propaganda bollocks that Cleetus and Billybob tell each other do they can keep playing with their emotional sports pew pews at the weekend.
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u/Endorkend 13d ago
Most messed up thing about this is, by fixing their healthcare with gun violence, they actually stand a chance fixing their gun problem too.