>>732017It literally is the guns. No other country has this problem.
This isn't a complicated issue at all, people engage in sophistry to make it seem complicated and ignore the giant elephant in the room.
Leftists should be in favor of evidence-based policy. We're supposed to be materialists, not appealing to vibes-based ideology. Cause and fucking effect.
>the working class needs guns to protect socialismPure delusions as far as America is concerned.
The majority of guns are owned by a minority of petty bourg. We're seeing how American gun owners are reacting to tyranny in real time - that is to say, they're not reacting. The vast majority of them are reactionaries who support fascist policies. They are not defending or anywhere close to even building socialism. They are enemies of socialism, actually. You really think gun nuts would celebrate a socialist revolution that brings about the dictatorship of the proletariat? Fuck no, they'd immediately form militias and try to overthrow the new government. Stripping them of their guns if anything will be a necessary path to socialism.
The same sort of people buy into this mythology about gun ownership imagine the "working class" as salt-of-the-earth coal miners. Again, it's vibes, not evidence-based.
>there will free healthcare so nobody will be mentally ill enough to do a mass shootingMore evidence-free vibes. There is mental illness everywhere. There's no America gene causing increased rates of mental illness. It's mass shootings that are uniquely American, and the only consistent factor is gun ownership, gun regulation, and gun culture.