Point being though, outside of racially targeted laws and laws deemed unconstitutional

Primary breakdown of gun rights is relatively recent

And yet it's not like for all of the US' history it was this brutal and barbaric place

from about 1968-1990s the 2A was almost destroyed

but the conceal carry movement and orgs like the Second Amendment Foundation and Gun Owners of America had started in the mid 80s, and by 2000 gun rights came roaring back

contrary to what Colbert believes, American gun culture is experiencing revival right now

we're light years better off than we were only 30 years ago

the '94 Assault Weapons Ban is not getting passed again without ether major opposition or civil war

Isnt crime overall going down as well?

yep

*I wonder why*

hit it's peak in the 70s and 80s, has been going down ever since

It is a mystery 👻

🤔

Its almost as if guns are effective in preventing crime

Social breakdown started in the 60s, never forget

that too

So did the family dynamics

Did not break down during the wars or the fucking depression

I'm with blode on that

b00mers recked the republic

^

Tbh it's a mixture of factors

Soviet subversion, the tendency to focus on reasons for things that doesn't extend beyond the "immediate future" leading to traditions being thrown out, the expansion of television, full-time working mothers, political obfuscation (perhaps partially owing to point 1)

And as one factor breaks down it boosts another factor

Like, I don't think the Internet itself has much to do with this, I think it's that people are losing the ability to take contrary ideas onboard and calmly examine them

counter culture was a problem too

Thus they look for niche communities, thus they further separate themselves from other opinions

the political parties were borderline indistinguisible in the 50s and 60s

same policies with only slight variation

There's always going to be something of a counter culture I suspect. It's probably healthy

no that's what I'm saying @Beemann

Oh ok

people were told to sit down and take both options behind shitty

Ah I see

a counter culture was bound to happen

God though why did it have to be on the left instead of the right?

Yeah I think the ruling class has become too comfortable

I still haven't forgiven the press for what they did to Goldwater in '64

I mean it's not like it was different when Bush won and had high approval ratings

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