A federal judge has blocked the state of Hawaii from enforcing a recently enacted ban on firearms on its prized beaches and in other areas including banks, bars and parks, citing last year's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights.

A federal judge has blocked the state of Hawaii from enforcing a recently enacted ban on firearms on its prized beaches and in other areas including banks, bars and parks, citing last year’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights.

  • ObliviousEnlightenment@lemmy.world
    3116·
    1 year ago

    “Who needs guns on the beach”

    I’m trans. Id sooner never go. But if I had to, with the way things are going, you bet your ass I am afraid and would rather be armed

    • Noughmad@programming.dev
      162·
      1 year ago

      As a trans person, would you rather go to a beach where nobody is armed, or to a beach where everybody might be armed?

      • Established_Trial@lemm.ee
        411·
        1 year ago

        I’m not trans, but I’d rather go where everyone might be armed. Just because everyone is supposed to not bring a gun somewhere doesn’t mean there won’t be someone that does- how many shootings in the US happen in “gun free zones”?

        • Fract@lemmy.world
          62·
          1 year ago

          Only in the US. When I go to the beach in my country, Australia, I’d never even consider the possibility of a gunman.

        • solstice@lemmy.world
          43·
          1 year ago

          I’ll foolishly assume this is a comment posted by a human in good faith and not a troll or a bot.

          Does fog of war mean anything to you? Go to a crowded place where everyone is armed. Person 1 is a baddie and kills person 2. Person 3 is a Good Guy and shoots person 1. People 4, 5, and 6 are also Good Guys With Guns and didn’t directly observe the original altercation, they only observed Person 3 shooting Person 1, and assume Person 3 shot Person 2 as well. People 4, 5, and 6, open fire on Person 3. They are bad shots though and the adrenaline dump makes them miss, so People 7, 8, and 9 get shot in the crossfire. At this point it is total chaos, everyone is either shooting at everyone else (fight), running in panic (flight), getting shot in the crossfire (freeze), or just shrieking their head off at the carnage in front of them (freak). Then the police arrive and shoot the survivors.

          Congratufuckinglations, we now have a bunch of bodies and dozens of traumatized people because you morons couldn’t leave your fucking guns at home and enjoy the goddamn beach.

          I hate this country so much sometimes.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      177·
      1 year ago

      Hell yes. Make guns a nonpartisan “nonissue.” Armed minorities are harder to oppress, and gun control disproportionately affects minorities in marginalized and overpoliced communities. One state just removed the requirement for pistol purchase permits because (as it was designed to be in the first place since it was a Jim Crow era law) racist sheriffs were denying black people’s permits, 60% of denials were to black people.

      • ycnz@lemmy.nz
        82·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, famously, the US doesn’t oppress minorities because of all the guns.

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          52·
          1 year ago

          There’s a reason California has so much gun control, and it is Ronald Reagan being racist in the 80’s because the Black Panthers were exercising their right to bare arms, because it was making it harder for the police to oppress them. In fact CCW and purchase permits were designed and are often still used as a way to keep POC from exercising their rights, as it makes them harder to oppress if they can carry. They use gun control to oppress those minorities, things like stop and frisk, or denying permits and charging them when they carry anyway. They enforce this gun control primarily in overpoliced marginalized minority neighborhoods, not in gated communities or majority white neighborhoods. Regardless of your intentions or perceptions, the real life effects of gun control are these, and it is harder to oppress a person/community/people who have guns than one who does not.

    • marmo7ade@lemmy.world
      157·
      1 year ago

      Yes! The only way America will solve the gun problem is if we keep escalating the problem to a critical point. You’re doing god’s work. Thank you.

      Instead of strapping up, I simply don’t go to beaches where I’m afraid to be shot. There’s more than 1 beach.

      • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
        124·
        1 year ago

        just don’t go anywhere you’re likely to be shot. Like school, work, the grocery store, church, urban areas, suburban areas, rural areas, bars, restaurants, nightclubs, daycare centers…

        Without even addressing the moral panic and domestic terrorism currently being whipped up against trans people the fact is that “just don’t go places where people are allowed to carry” is a bad solution even for the average person.