@Urwrong
As bad as schooling shootings are, and they are horrific, let’s put things into perspective a bit:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/15/us/school-shootings-sandy-hook-parkland.html
438, say 450 people were shot in the last 6 years in school shootings.
That’s 75 a year.
There are about 300 million people in the USA.
So the odds of someone or their kid being shot in a school shooting is about 1 in 4 million annually.
And 138, say 150 were shot dead, that’s 30 a year, that’s about 1 in 10 million annually, or in other words, it’s extremely unlikely someone or their kid will be shot (dead) in a school shooting.
And while that in itself doesn’t mean semi-autos shouldn’t be banned, and other guns further restricted, I think many people have been given the impression school and other spree shootings are far more frequent than they actually are, and this false impression needs to be dispelled.
As bad as the USA is, it could still get a hell of a lot worse, millions of people still risk life and limb annually trying to make it to the USA and other western nations from the third world.
I mean tell that to the Gypsies, Jews, intellectuals, Gays, and people with physical and/or psychological disabilities who survived Nazi Germany, the USA is a fascist dictatorship, or the tens of millions who lost their family at the hands of Stalin and Mao.
The USA is quasi-fascist, but it’s not outright fascist, in many important respects, we still have a ways to go.
Comparing national health care, insurance and social security, or moving more in the direction of Canada and Scandinavia economically, to a fascist dictatorship, is essentially comparing apples to oranges.
Many conservatives lump gun control in with the ‘pro-socialist agenda’.
Perhaps you’re more part of that agenda than you think, unbeknownst to you, or care to admit.
It’s funny you seem to argue for liberty over security and equality on principle, except here.
Don’t you think that if sacrificing liberty for security can be beneficial here, that it can be beneficial in other areas?
And socialism has nothing to do with the military, anymore than capitalism does.
The USA is still one of, if not the most capitalistic nation on earth, and it’s also the most militaristic nation on earth, it’s been the most militaristic nation on earth for nearly a century.