Their Guns Won’t Protect You, but They Can Get You Killed
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Neither Republican calls for more guns and policing nor Democrat demands for more gun control will put an end to the epidemic of mass shootings in the United States. The problem runs deeper.
The function of police is not to protect, but to control. It is not to prevent crises, but to determine who suffers in them. The footage of police in Uvalde physically restraining parents while their children were murdered speaks volumes.
Militarizing police has not stopped mass shootings. On the contrary, flooding our society with even more weapons will only increase the number of killings, whether by on-duty police, off-duty police, or others who have access to their guns.
Democrats are calling for more gun control. But who would enforce stricter gun laws? The police, of course. And they would enforce those laws just as selectively, and with just as much racism and violence, as they enforce all the other laws on the books.
