Hundreds of White women gather at Colorado Capitol after plea from women of color to use their ‘privilege’ to demand action on gun violence

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  1. imakenosensetopeople says

    They’d like to speak to the manager of the Capitol.

    Joking aside, good to see civil action asking politicians to take action. Curious if it works.

  2. ApprehensiveFee3478 says

    That’s…. Just not how anything works.

  3. CartNarcPatrolling says

    > The executive order Here4TheKids has proposed for Polis to sign calls for the governor to “ban the use, loading, possession or carrying of all firearms in Colorado, including but not limited to firearms for personal protection, hunting, law enforcement or any otherwise lawful purpose” and create a statewide gun buyback program.

    This seems unattainable. Let’s just say you somehow convince them to do a gun buyback. Then you want the police to not have any guns as well? Criminals will hold on to their guns or acquire them from other states.

    This proposal was not thought out at all

  4. burn-it-all- says

    Unfortunately, this is only being done to make whatever ‘White Women’ participated feel better about themselves.

    The biggest irony is the subheading “This is apolitical” when they area literally acting out the Identity Politics that drives the progressive left in the US.

    An approach that might actually work would be if they sat down with republicans and came up with a joint list of ways to address gun violence that they all agreed on. There are actually quite a few republicans that support required firearms training prior to a purchase, background checks, no guns for mentally ill people, bans or at minimum specific training and background checks required for assault weapons, a requirement to buy a gun safe with the purchase of a firearm, etc.. They could then march hand-in-hand with their republican counterparts and actually get something done.

    This will never happen though, for the same reason I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for this post and for the same reason that these women would never think of sitting down with a republican to discuss policies that might actually address the problems of gun violence.

    Instead we are all left with dumb stunts like this one. And probably another mass shooting in the news.

  5. jokes_on_you says

    Title is misleading. It was requested *by the white women* for other groups to stay out of it.

    >we are asking Black folks and other marginalized and vulnerable communities to sit this one out and allow the White women and their privileged bodies, their privilege, and their power to show up

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