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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
People say the 'slippery slope' is a fallacy, but this is only true when there is no nexus between the argument and the outcome.

One thing LibRight (and many Green LibLefts and most LibCenters) are correct about, is that this kind of shit is what you get when you allow the tiniest victories to gun prohibitionists -- the goalposts immediately move back further, and this keeps happening until insufferable, bored cops are patting themselves on the back after seizing a haul of unregistered butterknives and sharp rocks as lethal contraband that no citizen should have access to. Meanwhile the actual criminals are packing improvised full auto SMGs and smuggled in AKs, lmfao.
gpt
Who would have thought actually fighting crime.... *Doesn't* mean the thought and property policing of everyday citizens? An approach that, itself is predicated on the idea that everyday people are a potential threat and risk. An approach that pits us against one another and is almost always accompanied by an appeal to empower law enforcement and other agencies with existing power and legal backing to have more power and legal backing over everyday citizens.

It's almost as if weapon control laws and debates about them, strictly in terms of preventing crime, are on the whole largely a red herring.

Distracting us from conversations about our culture. It's structure. Support systems. Educational reform. Availability of mental health resources. And other topics of conversation that could be focused *entirely* on preventing crime by analyzing how criminals become criminals and removing incentives both passive and active. Both reducing crime, related costs, and improving society as a whole.

But that's an ugly, messy, complex approach that requires understanding each other, and discussion of problems, and nuance.

Better slap another weapon law on the country and move the goalposts and call it a day, eh?