This group needs a host or two, to block people who violate the group SOP

[freshwest]

10. I think Gun Safety would be good in one context, but not here, and this is why.

Registration, background checks, denial of licensing and gun possession, are not about gun safety. To say safety is to say different ways of operating guns.

Some people don't want to see the normalization of a 'gun in every hand' that ALEC, NRA, GOA are literally mandating in some areas. It infers guns are necessary to life, will inevitably proliferate, which is the Gungeon view. This may or may not be regarded as the anti-Gungeon group, but I don't believe we need to address on their SOP.

Education and community action are more useful to the safety of people who are not going to carry or use guns. This group doesn't need to go over those arguments, but that could be construed as surrender to that mentality.

Just putting that there for consideration, but I understand the desire to use different terms. If you feel it's necessary to fight the right wing memes about 'government tyranny and control' that might help. But I don't agree.

I ran into a thread yesterday about riots A poster implied turning in guns to the government was unwise as they are tyrants, apparently. We can't reason with that mindset, it has a permanent enemy, and that is government and so they want to keep their guns.

We are here saying the opposite, that government is the agency by which we as Democrats seek to have a safer society, not just operating guns with more safety. The term safety has appeal since the NRA had, and still has, classes in that before they went RWNJ.

I believe this mentality will never allow reasonable gun control for saving lives. In fact, every incident of gun violence feeds their desire for more weaponry. And military style weapons, as well.