Republican House Whip Steve Scalise, shot in Virginia mass shooting

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Teeqoz said:

sc94597 said:

When you are advocating for barriers to be raised that reduce the availability of weapons to the poor, yet the state and privileged classes still have access to weapons, then yes -- it does exactly that. 

You don't see celebrities and politicians worried about gun control because they have private (or taxpayer funded) security services. Likewise for the upper-middle class who can afford these barriers of entry. 

I didn't know gun-regulations had to be based on income instead of, say, mental health and such...

Gun regulations are already based on mental health in the United States. If you were involuntary institutionalized then you no longer are able to legally own a gun, unless you get a judge to sign off on it. The laws proposed in the United States are intended to limit their distribution amongst people who are deemed undesirable. The long history of gun control in the United States has its roots in racism ("black people shouldn't be able to defend themselves against the KKK, lets enact gun control"), and classism ("that poor redneck *isn't intelligent to own a gun, I don't trust him. ") 

*Note redneck originated as a class label of farmers, and then spread to the American proleteriat after the industrial revolution. It is very much a class-oriented term.