You tell me, mate. We're about to have a massive labour struggle involving about a third of our country's workforce and our socialists are gaining ground, in a country that is already way ahead of you. But of course, it's not like you actually know about anything going on here.
Oh, you mean after they've already bombed you? That sure is comforting. So what you're basically saying is that you can't do shit and all you can hope for is to become a martyr after you inevitably get stomped.
Oh you mean those socdems who also want to take the guns? I'm impressed. Now how do you plan on making them join the revolution?
What are some good leftist arguments against gun control?
I'd say the country aspect of it is somewhat relative. The US is pretty large and pretty unequal when it comes to wealth and security - there's parts of it that are quite 'safe' in that there are heavily armed police and private security monitoring the area, and there are places that are extremely dangerous, that the police basically won't go to. There's still small communities where 'everyone knows everyone' that are also quite safe if due to nothing other than low population and a general sense of community, though those areas have been shrinking and withering due to general urbanization in the country (partly due to people needing to go to cities to get any kind of job) as well as meth and opiates hitting these rural communities really hard in recent decades.
In any case, I'm glad we don't disagree on the substance of this, despite our different backgrounds, histories, and nationalities/raised culture, though I would add that, if you've never lived through a significant regional disaster disaster before (because I've never lived through a civil conflict as some have, though I assume it's somewhat like what I went though with a lot more death and horror) that it is a truly enlightening experience regarding the human condition in times of great stress and fear. It certainly made me think about life and personal security differently.
If you've never read this account from a guy who lived through the Bosnian war before it is kinda' relevant to our topic of discussion - of what life looks like in the middle of a sustained conflict/revolution/disaster. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in the discussion.
Dunno, I don't know shit about your country because I don't know what's you live.
So why don't you educate the poor old backwards burger?
What it means is that it works good once but won't work well twice.
If they're actually socialist you're able to explain the necessity of arms to them. If they're not socialist you start with the economics and then refer to my previous sentence.
Again, you're saying nothing except insulting shit for the sake of being insulting.
It's asinine.
I don't know where*
Typo.
guns are good, gringo fetishization of guns is the problem
After the strongest hurricane in recorded history tore my country to pieces i can safely say things were a week from becoming what this bosnian man wrote, just without the shelling, of course.
Anyone who opposes gun is a cuckold
Thanks for the article, it was pretty enlightening.
I live in Denmark. Sorry for being an ass. You're right, things aren't really great for socialists anywhere. That said, I still believe you're not gonna get anywhere with armed resistance: once SWTF, the state will take your guns, as that Bosnian fellow can attest to. Even if you try to resist, they got guns, training, and numbers, and you don't, even if you have a movement.
You aint ever lived through a social calamity, you west-euros are pampered through and through
It's okay. I still think that if armed resistance won't do anything here, unarmed certainly won't. Our main focus must be on organizing and recruiting while resisting any attempts to erode our rights.
And, I'm sorry too, since we're still on the same side.