My thought process for restricting gun access based on proximity to other humans/households (closer = more restrictions, farther away = fewer restrictions) goes approximately like this:
PROS:
* People living closely packed together will generally be more stressed by one another than people living with greater distances between them
* People living in smaller communities are more likely to think of the people around them as actual people (Dunbar's number/monkeysphere?)
* The farther away you live from other people and the fewer people you see in general, the fewer people there are to shoot
CONS:
* Horrible racist connotations! I don't think that POC are inherently more violent than white folks, but the GOP basically builds its platform on the opposite idea. If the conservadouche collective ever thinks of this, some sort of proximity-based gun restriction stuff could actually get passed, but I have no doubt that they would frame it as "Keep guns out of the hands of those scary urban POC!" More gun control would be nice, but I would feel seriously icky if that's the reason we actually got it. Because ew.
I was at an event once where a Republican state-level congressperson spoke about how one of the (at the time few) things he seriously disagreed with his party on gun control, and he specifically said it was because he lived in a large city. The concept of proximity-based gun control has been kicking around in my head since then, but very rarely at the forefront of my thoughts. I think it could actually work as a viable proposition, but I've been seriously educated on my own white privilege since I first thought of it and the GOP positively reeks of racism.
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PROS:
* People living closely packed together will generally be more stressed by one another than people living with greater distances between them
* People living in smaller communities are more likely to think of the people around them as actual people (Dunbar's number/monkeysphere?)
* The farther away you live from other people and the fewer people you see in general, the fewer people there are to shoot
CONS:
* Horrible racist connotations! I don't think that POC are inherently more violent than white folks, but the GOP basically builds its platform on the opposite idea. If the conservadouche collective ever thinks of this, some sort of proximity-based gun restriction stuff could actually get passed, but I have no doubt that they would frame it as "Keep guns out of the hands of those scary urban POC!" More gun control would be nice, but I would feel seriously icky if that's the reason we actually got it. Because ew.
I was at an event once where a Republican state-level congressperson spoke about how one of the (at the time few) things he seriously disagreed with his party on gun control, and he specifically said it was because he lived in a large city. The concept of proximity-based gun control has been kicking around in my head since then, but very rarely at the forefront of my thoughts. I think it could actually work as a viable proposition, but I've been seriously educated on my own white privilege since I first thought of it and the GOP positively reeks of racism.