Honestly my only hope is.. that the lone gunman suicidal "I want to go down in a way to be remembered" kinds of shooters. Learn from this, and consider shooting a wealthy CEO instead of a school or movie theatre etc...

I in no way want more violence... but I believe it would be nice if the "we can't do anything about" violence, were more top of the power chain instead of bottom.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Realistically, if all the school shooters start going after CEOs instead (I certainly wouldn't complain if they did) you'd very quickly see gun violence go from "unsolvable" to "very solvable".

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So... you're saying

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh no no, my friend. If the wealthy being gunned down results in gun control, it won't be for them. There will be some kind of exemption for private security that will be extremely expensive to get. Those wealthy enough will be able to find ways of sourcing their own if they want one. We'd be the ones without guns in that scenario.

[–] Timmy_Jizz_Tits@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think you're actually underestimating our dystopia. Private security/military already exist to the scale that the, literal, "war" aspect of a class war would make actual arms mostly irrelevant. I think at that point it's just a numbers game.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Numbers are a very large part of that particular game.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This already exists.

In New York wealthy business people pay small town sheriffs to deputize them. As deputies they now have a right to concealed carry, even in places like NYC that have very strict gun laws.

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I hate that this is a thing.