There are no reasonable gun owners coming to the rescue.. They are like the Texas cops waiting around while we all die.
This is a long time culture war where the end game must be fewer guns in public spaces.
This means changing generations of Americans who do believe a gun in the home makes them safer.
No it doesn't. Never has. Never will.
That means the #guncontrol movement needs to say that.
It doesn't.
Instead it speaks double speak from inside the Beltway pollster consultants that spew out words that no one believes is true.
Like. "gun safety" "gun sense" etc.
What the nation must do is remove guns from public spaces and lock guns in the home.
1) You can own all the guns you want! But!
2) You must license and register them and most importantly.
3). Keep them home, locked and away from the ammo.
You want guns? Have them but keep them at home and out of my supermarket and make sure they are locked to prevent the suicide of your teenager that just got dumped by their girlfriend.
Fascinating and excellent article Micah. I have been mulling this one a lot as someone who works in the climate space and wondering how we just keep getting stuck. Monoculture and donor driven thinking seem to be a huge huge factor.
This could be the start of a great PhD thesis. Would be interesting to compare to Black Lives Matter and other movements vs monoculture to see what could be different? And could this monoculture become a movement? What would it take in your mind Micah?
Excellent piece, lots to digest. The way the Supreme Court is presently constructed does throw a very large wrench into hopes of any sort of concrete legislation. The best idea for now seems to be working on the local level to not only pass regional legislation, but support survivor counseling, local business gun bans, etc... Warning: Plug -- Please check out our Substack, as I think many reading this would be interested. This is the Substack for GVPedia: https://armedwithreason.substack.com/
Wonderful piece. One reason I think co-optation has been particularly effective in the gun-violence movement is that the left (by which I do not mean Michael Bloomberg) has struggled to develop its own approach to the issue, one that links gun culture to militarism and over-policing. So the Parkland kids were trying to not only try to build independent organization from scratch but to do so without the kind of lode-star demands (think Medicare for All or Green New Deal) that have helped emerging leftists find their way in other arenas. A tried to make a contribution to this for for Jacobin a few years ago when things looked a bit more hopeful: https://jacobin.com/2020/01/gun-violence-socialist-approach-firearms-michael-bloomberg
There are no reasonable gun owners coming to the rescue.. They are like the Texas cops waiting around while we all die.
This is a long time culture war where the end game must be fewer guns in public spaces.
This means changing generations of Americans who do believe a gun in the home makes them safer.
No it doesn't. Never has. Never will.
That means the #guncontrol movement needs to say that.
It doesn't.
Instead it speaks double speak from inside the Beltway pollster consultants that spew out words that no one believes is true.
Like. "gun safety" "gun sense" etc.
What the nation must do is remove guns from public spaces and lock guns in the home.
1) You can own all the guns you want! But!
2) You must license and register them and most importantly.
3). Keep them home, locked and away from the ammo.
You want guns? Have them but keep them at home and out of my supermarket and make sure they are locked to prevent the suicide of your teenager that just got dumped by their girlfriend.
Food for thought, Micah. I'm also wondering why the media covers COVID so differently from the twin epidemics of mass shootings and political inertia, which are so much more deadly to our democracy. (I wrote a piece about it for CTNewsJunkie: https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2022/05/26/op-ed-neutral-coverage-of-a-mass-shooting-enough-is-enough/.)
Fascinating and excellent article Micah. I have been mulling this one a lot as someone who works in the climate space and wondering how we just keep getting stuck. Monoculture and donor driven thinking seem to be a huge huge factor.
Thank you for such careful journalism, Micah. How might this piece find a larger audience?
This could be the start of a great PhD thesis. Would be interesting to compare to Black Lives Matter and other movements vs monoculture to see what could be different? And could this monoculture become a movement? What would it take in your mind Micah?
Excellent piece, lots to digest. The way the Supreme Court is presently constructed does throw a very large wrench into hopes of any sort of concrete legislation. The best idea for now seems to be working on the local level to not only pass regional legislation, but support survivor counseling, local business gun bans, etc... Warning: Plug -- Please check out our Substack, as I think many reading this would be interested. This is the Substack for GVPedia: https://armedwithreason.substack.com/
Wonderful piece. One reason I think co-optation has been particularly effective in the gun-violence movement is that the left (by which I do not mean Michael Bloomberg) has struggled to develop its own approach to the issue, one that links gun culture to militarism and over-policing. So the Parkland kids were trying to not only try to build independent organization from scratch but to do so without the kind of lode-star demands (think Medicare for All or Green New Deal) that have helped emerging leftists find their way in other arenas. A tried to make a contribution to this for for Jacobin a few years ago when things looked a bit more hopeful: https://jacobin.com/2020/01/gun-violence-socialist-approach-firearms-michael-bloomberg