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Crowd cheered as two transgender women were attacked in Minneapolis, advocates say (www.independent.co.uk)

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Two transgender women, Dahlia and Jess, were attacked at a Minneapolis rail station, with onlookers cheering their assailants instead of helping.

After confronting a man yelling transphobic slurs, the situation escalated into a violent assault involving four or five others, leaving both women unconscious.

Advocates attribute the rise in anti-trans violence to emboldened transphobia fueled by misinformation and political rhetoric, including Donald Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ policies.

The local trans community is responding with solidarity rallies, self-defense classes, and firearm training to prepare for a potential increase in attacks.

Police are investigating, but no arrests have been made.

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[+] SupraMario@lemmy.world -7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think simple minded people can only differentiate pro or anti when most issues are nuanced. Stop being simple minded. I've owned a gun for most of my life, I also think some of the gun laws need to change. That doesn't make me anti gun, it just means I understand some regulation could save lives.

Yea tons of nuance... regulation is not going to save lives. Fixing our society has. And you're tossing out the "I'm a gun owner" as if that somehow makes you an expert on it is hilarious.... because then you toss out the most ignorant "common sense" gun control next...

Things like universal background checks

Requires registration.... instead they could open the NICS to people who sell guns for free...but nope.

and mandatory gun safety courses (resulting in a gun license)

So more registration....and banning private sales.

could both reduce gun violence while still allowing most citizens to own guns.

None of these will save lives, the criminals will no go through any of this to get firearms, and those who do to commit mass shootings will pass with flying colors. Those who want to use a firearm to commit suicide will also still obtain a firearm

That doesn't make me anti gun, it just means I think we can do things to reduce violence by gun.

No it makes you ignorant on the subject and as you said. Simple minded.

Want to fix our society:

Pay teachers more

Build more schools to reduce class sizes

Make sure all kids have access to school food 3 meals a day

Single payer healthcare

Increased mental healthcare facilities and workers so kids don't turn to suicide

Improve safety nets

End the war on drugs

End for profit prison system

End qualified immunity

All of these are actual solutions and not dumbass virtue signaling "common sense" gun laws that will not reduce our gun crime a single %.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I said I was a gun owner because it directly contradicted your moronic binary thinking were people can only fit in one of 2 boxes.

instead they could open the NICS to people who sell guns for free

Okay go ahead...

And how do gun safety courses ban private sales?

Common criminals are not the only gun deaths. For crimes of passion, requiring a short term barrier to ownership usually leaves time for that passion to subside. For suicide, requiring a short term barrier is often insurmountable for someone that is depressed. But most importantly, for gun safety, a lot of dip shits with guns have zero idea what they are doing and are a danger to everyone even if they don't intend to be. The same people that will argue up and down that mandatory gun safety is too far, will also argue that gun safety courses make guns safer and we should allow all guns because good people with guns train themselves and take it seriously. It's usually just the mandatory part that bothers them.

I agree with the entire second half of your comment, from "pay teachers" to "end qualified immunity". They aren't mutually exclusive though.