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Justice Department finalizes rules to close ‘gun show loophole’ | The change was touted by the White House as the biggest increase in gun regulation in decades (wapo.st)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is election year performative action with no direct effect on reducing gun crime.

[–] NataliePortland 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Actually violent crime has been dropping consistently for decades!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's no correlation between the violent crime rate and firearms regulations in the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Beyond false. Couldn't be further from the truth lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Poverty is the real problem. Everything else is Band-Aid...which can be effective in stopping some of the bleeding. Its just the only tool the ownership class can accept

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Owner class would love nothing more than to disarm the working class.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Gun ownership is growing fastest among non traditional gun owners. LGBTQ, Latinos, Black people. The problem makers have their guns, and their dads guns, and his dads guns, all passed down to them.