A reminder that California’s famously strict gun laws started as a Republican reaction to black people owning guns and forming citizen militias to protect their neighborhoods from criminals and oppressive government thugs.
Indeed, Ronnie Racist Fucking Reagan and a senator who panicked when the armed Black Panthers(?) walked into the State Capitol building during a protest. Before that, California was open carry, locked and loaded.
Exactly this. But you wont see one gun from rich people, while the rest of us have to mandatory turn in our guns. There are no laws for people that can throw money at the courthouse to let them do what they want. In america its only “legal” to do illegal shit if your rich
I keep seeing evidence that the rich don’t give 1% of a shit about the rest of us, but I keep sending myself “thoughts and prayers” that that’s not totally true and we don’t have an open class war going on in the US.
I have also spent a lifetime trying to reconcile religious identities in groups being a pretty big part of the problem, too. It just seems to be getting worse all the time.
This place only ever feels even remotely like a democracy when we have an election, and the candidates that go into elections are seldom interested in the wellbeing of the people, so its not really much of a choice anyway.
We seem to become a country more like Russia, and a people more like Russians all the time.
Not sure what to do about it except to find a way to move to a more civilized place, if they will take me.
Oh absolutely. Start letting the gun violence get too close to home and the rich will force that legislation through overnight
A reminder that California’s famously strict gun laws started as a Republican reaction to black people owning guns and forming citizen militias to protect their neighborhoods from criminals and oppressive government thugs.
Indeed, Ronnie Racist Fucking Reagan and a senator who panicked when the armed Black Panthers(?) walked into the State Capitol building during a protest. Before that, California was open carry, locked and loaded.
Literally where California’s strictness on handguns originated.
Exactly this. But you wont see one gun from rich people, while the rest of us have to mandatory turn in our guns. There are no laws for people that can throw money at the courthouse to let them do what they want. In america its only “legal” to do illegal shit if your rich
I keep seeing evidence that the rich don’t give 1% of a shit about the rest of us, but I keep sending myself “thoughts and prayers” that that’s not totally true and we don’t have an open class war going on in the US.
I have also spent a lifetime trying to reconcile religious identities in groups being a pretty big part of the problem, too. It just seems to be getting worse all the time.
This place only ever feels even remotely like a democracy when we have an election, and the candidates that go into elections are seldom interested in the wellbeing of the people, so its not really much of a choice anyway.
We seem to become a country more like Russia, and a people more like Russians all the time.
Not sure what to do about it except to find a way to move to a more civilized place, if they will take me.