I’ve come to believe it’s a colonial mindset. To view your home and even your person as a colonial outpost, to be defended violently. It’s the type of mindset people have probably adopted and discarded throughout periods of settlement and migration. Right now, our society still uses it, even though it should have been discarded because we no longer live in a frontier, because our society is racist and it must inherit that structural bigotry to inherit the rest. Or rather, so those at the top can continue to inherit the rest.
During the last two decades of the 20th century, in response to several high-profile mass shootings, the federal government worked closely with state governments to implement more stringent firearms legislation. […]
Licence holders must demonstrate a “genuine reason” (which does not include self-defence) for holding a firearm licence[3] and must not be a “prohibited person”.
Mass shootings are a different beast, but yes part of the story is stricter gun laws for sure. But one of the other stories they refer to is a man killing three kids with his car, and we just don’t see that kind of bloodlust to the same extent
Well if you’re looking for a reason for more bloodlust in general rather that just shootings I’d say you could take that example and extrapolate that it’s simply that your government cares more about maintaining a functional society than ours does. Society in decay breeds anger, and we have entire media industries built to direct that anger away from our ineffective government on to whatever scapegoat confirms your worst, most ignorant beliefs.
This^. People ask why I’m strapped and I’ll point to shit like this and say “you do know we’re surrounded by people who have murder fantasies, yeah?”. This past spring my partner had two incidents where road raging freaks came after them.
The number of people just slavering to have an excuse to shoot someone is pretty staggering.
I’ve come to believe it’s a colonial mindset. To view your home and even your person as a colonial outpost, to be defended violently. It’s the type of mindset people have probably adopted and discarded throughout periods of settlement and migration. Right now, our society still uses it, even though it should have been discarded because we no longer live in a frontier, because our society is racist and it must inherit that structural bigotry to inherit the rest. Or rather, so those at the top can continue to inherit the rest.
There must be more to it because we don’t really see it here (au) and we’re also supremely settler brained. But yeah it’s gotta be a component.
Australia’s response to their gun violence problem was to tighten gun laws. The US response is to blame the trans.
Mass shootings are a different beast, but yes part of the story is stricter gun laws for sure. But one of the other stories they refer to is a man killing three kids with his car, and we just don’t see that kind of bloodlust to the same extent
Well if you’re looking for a reason for more bloodlust in general rather that just shootings I’d say you could take that example and extrapolate that it’s simply that your government cares more about maintaining a functional society than ours does. Society in decay breeds anger, and we have entire media industries built to direct that anger away from our ineffective government on to whatever scapegoat confirms your worst, most ignorant beliefs.
Slavering slavers
Ironically it’s a big reason for my having guns
This^. People ask why I’m strapped and I’ll point to shit like this and say “you do know we’re surrounded by people who have murder fantasies, yeah?”. This past spring my partner had two incidents where road raging freaks came after them.