Hear me out here. We don't let people operate a car without taking a test first, because people are fucking stupid and cars are dangerous. We need to assess a basic modicum of understanding before you get to get behind the wheel for the safety of yourself and everyone around you. I think a lot of people even argue that we need more stringent monitoring of that testing process, because of the large swaths of the population that statistically have a higher incidence of problems with said operation of dangerous vehicles.
Yet, every goddamn mouthbreather with a fucking pulse can get a fucking gun. Explain that shit to me. Because I would really like to stop meeting people after they've shot themselves in the leg with their own fucking gun while cleaning it. Every. Goddamn. Week.
"ThE LIbeRaLs aRe CoMiNg FoR oUr GuNs OoooOOooOOoo..." No we fucking aren't. Like it or not, I acknowledge that guns are WAY too ingrained in our culture for them to be going anywhere. I've accepted it. Fearing literally ANY legislation regarding guns on the basis that you're scared of us "coming for your guns" is hindering progress toward making gun ownership safer and more reasonable.
If we're gonna do guns, can we please do it smarter? Can we just assume everyone is too fucking stupid until proven otherwise, like we do with cars?
I think all societies globally operate on some elitist basis, more or less defending entrenched privileges.
Those elites operate with a relative consensus that isnt shared that much, or suspected from what I can tell, and that consensus has got to do with population. For some of them its simply pragmatic, a sort of balance sheet idea, for other's its a properly thought out thing Malthus, Social Darwinism etc.
Anyway, the point is that you should consider every single political topic or talking point with this lens in mind.
Sexual orientation/sexual norms? They are going to support whatever proves the most anti-natalist.
Abortion? Whatever is anti-natalist.
Woman's rights? Whatever is anti-natalist (the real reason the education/schooling of women and girls is supported as a global intervention)
Gun control? What is going to eliminate heads of population.
Slow or inadequate formal responses to disease, famine, war, weather disaster, catastrophic climate change? Anti-natalism, eliminating heads of population.
Population control itself is most of the time a euphenism for some kind of active death wish, maybe not on the self but definitely upon others.