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SuaveSocialist said:
sc94597 said:

Anybody who thinks that the liberal-democratic state should disarm the common man is not a socialist in my eyes.

Anyone who reads that "reducing gun rights to gun privileges" = "disarming the common man" is not literate in my eyes.

Privilege at whose authority? The bourgeoisie and the nation-state they control? I am not lacking literacy here, I just am thinking through the implications of handing authority over this matter to the capitalist state. Apparently you are not. 

 

When gun-ownership is not socially protected the people lack the means to affirm their will outside of the rigged political process. You might feel comfortable with your country's well-off controlling your access to guns, I am not.

 

I am assuming you are a reformist though, which has so many  practical problems one might as well call oneself  social democrat or left-liberal.