“The US Commerce Department has played booster and concierge to the firearm industry, even as America’s mass shootings horrify the world and gun-crime rates rise in many of the importing countries.”
Original article is a Bloomberg piece available at - https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-us-made-gun-exports-shootings-violence-sig-sauer/
Yeah, ok, the US Department of Commerce is buddying around with arms manufacturers at conventions in Vegas because they want to protect the ability of peoples’ movements to resist their governments, this definitely isn’t about arming right wing death squads financed by oligarchs or anything like that /s
The reason why the citizens need access to something, and the reason why they are still allowed that access may not be the same reason.
Have you ever contemplated a solution to a problem that wasn’t just shooting it in the face?
I mean, I know I’m being reductionist, but I just didn’t want you to feel alone in that regard.
2nd amendment in the US is a complicated topic and both sides have completely ruined any chance for a civilized discussion about the topic. I’m pro. I’ve got my reasons. But it’s probably going to go away and for the wrong reason.
Shockingly, there’s more than two sides. Just because the people in power have tricked you into thinking otherwise doesn’t mean it’s true.
Can’t have a communist revolution without guns
Yeah, cause the last 100 years of armed “communist” revolution have gone so well.