https://dirkkelly.com/tags/jacobin/Recent content in Jacobin on Dirk KellyHugoen-USWed, 28 Mar 2018 20:46:17 +0000https://dirkkelly.com/posts/the-socialist-case-for-gun-control-nivedita-majumdar/Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:46:17 +0000https://dirkkelly.com/posts/the-socialist-case-for-gun-control-nivedita-majumdar/<p><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/02/gun-control-parkland-students-race-police" target="_blank">Nivedita Majumdar “The Health of Nations&quot; Jacobin</a> </p> <blockquote> <p>As socialists we appreciate the violence of capitalism in denying basic necessities like decent housing and schooling to large sections of the population. But do we wait for the overthrow of capitalism and reject interim solutions to remedy those ills?</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Even when leftists lend qualified support to gun control, they limit it <a href="https://www.socialistalternative.org/2017/12/05/gun-control-solution-gun-violence-socialist-analysis/" target="_blank">only to the banning of assault type weaponry</a> . Once again, they’re focused only on mass shootings where shooters tend to use such weaponry. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/sunday-review/the-assault-weapon-myth.html" target="_blank">But it’s handguns that are responsible</a>  for the overwhelming majority of homicides.</p>