Battling anything is built of two parts, making it immoral, and making it illegal. Making it illegal makes it easier to argue that it’s immoral, because many people take cues for their morality from legality, but if you want to keep it illegal you have to maintain the cultural belief in its immorality. Each reinforces the other.
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deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ban smartphones makes about as much sense as ban drugs or ban guns. It does nothing to address root causes and will do little to change anything for the better. Societal issues take more than “make X illegal”.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
If USA banned guns, they might have a few less shootings.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Counting the civil war or no?
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Do counts with and without the civil war.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is true but I don’t think it’s going to have the desired effect you want in the long run. How’s the war on drugs working out?
Firearms restrictions will be enforced unequally; it will be used as a pretense to further persecute minorities. Those with money will simply hire private security contractors who can jump through the legal hoops to get whatever they want. The majority of shootings in the US are related to drugs and other illegal activities that have logistics channels to get guns just as easily as drugs or exploited people. Guns are durable and the demand exists. They’re not going anywhere.
The gun problem in the US is not the cause of our woes, it is the symptom. “Make X illegal” is the laziest form of government and it’s just granting them more power which will be abused eventually.
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Appreciated, but do you think the authorities want to win the war on drugs?