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by CDFingers
Look at all the trouble folks are having making laws. I think we should take the feminist approach. You look at the goal and find a way to reach consensus. Men usually want to take the authoritarian approach and make laws and apply punishments. Just this one tiny thread shows it--not to mention but I will every online discussion on this topic.
The feminist approach would be to agree on a goal--that we have: safety--then devise a non law way to achieve it because the law way leads to failure.
In creating a consensus, nearly everyone has to have a buy in. So in our society, non gun owners need a say in gun safety, and the feminist way says that if you can't accept that others own guns you can't figure in the solution.
See what we do there? In order to reach consensus, non gun people have to be taught that no matter which laws you make, some guy with a lathe is going to make a gun. Maybe two, and sell one. You have to accept that guns will always be in America. That's what they have to give up, that they will never be able to eradicate and prevent guns.
Once they accept that, they can begin to come to terms on what means gun safety--four rules--and it's easy stuff. Then they have to accept that people need to be taught how to be safe with guns. Where do we learn stuff? School. Once you accept that the kid is going to get behind the wheel of a car, you instill Driver's Ed and Driver's Training. Thus is born out of agreement Gunner's Ed and Gunner's Training. And air rifle competition among schools.
Now, what do they get for such a compromise--accepting that guns exist and training their own kids how to be safe with them? Technically they should get reduced accidents for sure, and hopefully reduced bad-gun use due to peer pressure. They would also get--after a generation--a societal sense of comfort around guns so that if someone brings one around, it's like someone brought in a basketball: "Headed to the range?" "Yeah. Bullseye practice."
Huge societal buy-in on this, kids, yeah. We know no laws will be made that will be successful. We have to go all feminist on they ass. I don't think the path to the goal includes laws.
CDFingers
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