>>Thanks Lefties!
replyWhat lefties? From my non-US perspective, all people supporting this are definitely on the right, including the democrats pushing for this.
Also literally no idea what this has to do with communism, care to enlighten us? Or is it just a catch-all phrase for anything bad?
Disarming the masses is Communism 101.
reply"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary." -Karl Marx
replyIt's also a common right wing tactic. It's really just an authoritarian action in general, separate from left or right.
replyThis is coming from California, a distinctly capitalist state, and refers to a list published by the US Federal Department of Justice, which reports to a distinctly capitalist (or... at a minimum, a distinctly non-communist) administration.
replyIt also doesn't get in the way of the US's (already extraordinarily loose) firearms sale and acquisition doctrine which regularly costs innocent lives with the pretext of resisting a tyrannical government (which, it appears, people aren't actually that interested in doing now that one's in power).