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Arm the Homeless
(lemmy.ca)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2634741
The only gun control I need is an armed homeless population
"Those homeless people are lowering MY property values with their continued existence!
How can they be so selfish?!"
My oligarch owned Government, culture, and it's major media will never succeed in propagandizing me into the madness of putting property rights over human rights. America runs on schadenfreude, our values are beyond fucked.
I agree with the sentiment but there is a bit more to the argument than property values. You can simultaneously hold the positions of, "I think society should do more to solve this problem," and, "I would really prefer to not have needles in my front yard."
It's a difficult problem to solve, and we don't dedicate the resources or effort to solving it that are required.
Yes, but when your solution is to lock them up or have the cops come kick them out and move them along, you’re admitting you don’t actually care about solving the problem, only keeping it out of your sight.
Not to say that is what your solution is, but I live next to a high homeless population, but extremely affluent area, and the discussion on Facebook and Reddit would have you think that the only feasible solution is to build prisons and lock these people up forever, but they always preface it with that same needle complaint, as if that justifies dehumanization of people, and isn’t just an indictment on our systems.
Needles in your front yard isn't as important a priority as human beings having a place to sleep and something to eat. It just isn't.
We should house anyone without means as a society.
In lieu of that, they set up tents in the commons, because we are a profoundly antisocial, ~~individualistic~~ selfish society and aren't willing to do better for our fellow citizens as they're our capitalistic competition.
To then petition your local government to remove tent cities by your house, or call the cops on a homeless person taking refuge in an area of the commons near your home, is just further harassing the brothers and sisters of our society we have already failed so completely.
Our homelessness epidemic is a reflection and condemnation of all of us. It's sad that for so many, the priority is getting that reflection out of their eyeline. Ignorance is bliss.