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Republican men seem massively troubled about their masculinity — and that's literally causing death and suffering

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for even objectively considering my perspective. The 2nd amendment has a metric shitload of strong feelings surrounding it, which makes it an outlier from all the other rights in the constitution currently. I personally believe every right needs to be defended equally zealously, because there is always a tendency towards erroding them. I wouldn't even put it past some politicians to actually try my ludicrous voter suppression parts by offering monetary incentives to not vote in districts that aren't already gerrymandered to hell. Or the same for 4th amendment rights. Looking at you, fascist wing of the GOP.

The constitution is intended to grow and evolve with the country, which is why we have ways to do this. It's not easy though, by design. Obviously SOMETHING needs to change, be it guns, mental health, policing, wealth equality, or personal security. I, once again personally, think that the root cause of violent crime lies under wealth inequality, lack of feeling secure and productive in society/their community, and physical/mental health rather than just access to firearms. I also think it is easier to get a simple majority of the country to agree to fixing our broken healthcare system, and make substantive steps to curb wealth inequality than it is to get 75% of both houses of Congress and then 75% of State Governments to agree to reduce or eliminate gun rights. But I know I'm an outlier here myself, and there are better minds than mine out there.

I'd love to have a viable candidate to vote for that wants to keep individual gun rights, implement a UBI in place of the rats nest of gutted social services, offer universal healthcare to include mental health, fix the tax code, close loopholes, tax automation, and codify abortion, gay marriage, and LGBTQ rights. But since that wouldn't rile up the extreme ends of the voter bases, I won't be holding my breath.