It's almost like guns are tools designed to kill people, and having a tool designed to kill people makes it easier to kill people.
wait is this true
did we actually have gun control at some point in the recent past?
yes. there’s a study for you on the effect it had as well conducted by the natn’l institute of justice.
LIT THANKS!!
And what's really going to bake your noodles, kids. The push for gun control in the US really got going in the late 60's by a Republican Govenor, Ronald Reagan AND the NRA.
What could have given the modern Republican party a spine, you ask? Well, it was those darn Black people of course! The Black Panther Party to be exact.
Long story short, the Panthers, in response to police brutality and systemic oppression, Panters urged Black people to arm themselves and to protect their own neighborhoods. They showed up to the state house with their rifles and handguns...
And faster than you can reload a fully automatic weapon, Reagan and the NRA were like, oh, Hell no! We need Gun Control! And that became the Mulford Act of 1967 which banned the open carrying of firearms. Go figure.
Bottom line, if it benefits the white supremacist power structure, this country can and will do anything. Big sigh. The hypocrisy is mind numbing.
And that's today's, The More You Know.
Back in the 1960s, even the NRA supported gun control to disarm the group.
