SupraMario

I think simple minded people can only differentiate pro or anti when most issues are nuanced. Stop being simple minded. I've owned a gun for most of my life, I also think some of the gun laws need to change. That doesn't make me anti gun, it just means I understand some regulation could save lives.

Yea tons of nuance... regulation is not going to save lives. Fixing our society has. And you're tossing out the "I'm a gun owner" as if that somehow makes you an expert on it is hilarious.... because then you toss out the most ignorant "common sense" gun control next...

Things like universal background checks

Requires registration.... instead they could open the NICS to people who sell guns for free...but nope.

and mandatory gun safety courses (resulting in a gun license)

So more registration....and banning private sales.

could both reduce gun violence while still allowing most citizens to own guns.

None of these will save lives, the criminals will no go through any of this to get firearms, and those who do to commit mass shootings will pass with flying colors. Those who want to use a firearm to commit suicide will also still obtain a firearm

That doesn't make me anti gun, it just means I think we can do things to reduce violence by gun.

No it makes you ignorant on the subject and as you said. Simple minded.

Want to fix our society:

Pay teachers more

Build more schools to reduce class sizes

Make sure all kids have access to school food 3 meals a day

Single payer healthcare

Increased mental healthcare facilities and workers so kids don't turn to suicide

Improve safety nets

End the war on drugs

End for profit prison system

End qualified immunity

All of these are actual solutions and not dumbass virtue signaling "common sense" gun laws that will not reduce our gun crime a single %.

Cool, those who believe that fine, but the majority don't.

Lemmy is antigun and gun control is antigun. Stop getting them confused. I've had this argument plenty here on lemmy, and have presented tons of evidence that the majority of the left would ban guns if they had the ability to do so.

You don't get to shout for an AWB, registration, wanting only approved places to shoot, banning basically everything but small calibers, making the cost via taxes be so high that only the rich could own them, etc. and say that your not antigun.

Because that's your argument. Death by 1000 cuts comes into play here. When you effectively make it impossible to own something but then allow for a few fringe cases to exist, and say "well you can own it see". You have effectively banned it, without banning it.

And I'm not using proNRA trash. The NRA is a shit organization and can go bankrupt for all I care. Stop conflating the two.