What is the problem with banning weapons? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 days ago by qtpie@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Sorry if this is not the place for that kind of discussion. I would like to be civil, please. Some people on Reddit were talking about how only dictators would want to disarm people.

Can I have some explanation on your opinion and why? I believe weapons should be banned and that crime should not exist in the first place. My opinion may change, but I believe there should somehow be strict rules regarding crime to reduce the amount of it and just have a place where it will not be worried about.

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[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 14 points 2 days ago

I'll bite.

I believe most crime is fundamentally due to poverty. I don't believe you can simply enforce your way out of crime. That would be extremely expensive and wouldn't do anything about the poverty. You'd be better off giving the police funding to the poor communities. Enforcement would be unequally dished out to poorer areas, creating an oppressive atmosphere. So when people say it's something a dictator does, it's because it ignores the fundamental problem in order to jump straight to aggressive policing. Aggressive policing is something a dictator does.

[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Petty crime, sure.

White collar crime is pure greed, though, and that's 90% of what politicians are doing right now in the US...

There are many motivations for crime, and we need to start punishing the poeple that don't "have" to do the crime A LOT more harshly, and the people that do "have" to commit the crime far less.

[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

Ideally white collar crime wouldn't even be possible.

[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago

It will always be possible. The punishments need to be very harsh, because white collar crime never "needs" to happen.

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