• Rachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 hours ago

    Now it’s important to know what they meant is black people taking over. They have no issue with a white nationalist authoritarian government.

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      “Basically, I just hate anyone weaker than me who has no way of defending. I don’t like working hard or putting effort into bullying.”

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      “Tyrant” for the common 2A crowd meant “Someone who seriously disrupts the status quo of patriarchal white supremacy. You know. Like a black woman”

      There’s a few out there who genuinely intend to use access to violence to protect their community from systemic violence. But that is a vast minority. I see a lot of lemmings thinking that the 2A crowd was speaking in good faith. They were not. And because of the political culture of America collapsing complex political spectrums into binaries that largely exist by virtue signaling, anyone who is against this should be presumed gunless, and anyone with a gun should be considered pro-this.

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        There are a lot of people with progressive views that are armedin america. The issue is we are up against an actual army and there is no leadership. People arent very likely to risk thwir life if they think they will be alone. I fear comments like yours perpetuate the idea that lefty gun folks are alone

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        There’s a few out there who genuinely intend to use access to violence to protect their community from systemic violence.

        Korean shop owners should be allowed all the armaments they can carry.

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    The NRA has never cared about supporting gun rights. All they care about is inserting themselves as the middle-man you’re required to pay before you’re allowed to exercise your second ammendment rights. They lobby exclusively for legislation that requires you to obtain training from one of their “licensed” instructors before being able to obtain a concealed carry permit. That’s all. Anyone who supports them is a clueless chud.

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    Reminder that the NRA is a gun manufacturer trade organization. They don’t represent or even necessarily fight on behalf of gun owners. The reason that many gun owners are NRA members is because the NRA provides low-cost insurance for gun ranges, with the requirement that users must be in the NRA.

    On that note, if you do shoot: Seek out the minority of non-NRA ranges to do it at, find appropriate public land, or approved private property. Don’t patronize NRA-insured ranges.

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      That’s so interesting. I’m not an avid shooter but I’ve been to a handful of ranges and it’s never even been asked of me.

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    Somehow very anti capitalistic from them to not exploit the chance to run marketing targeting Black Panthers, the Hispanic community and LGBTQ people. I mean isn’t there a whole market they neglect right now?

    /s and also not/s

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      The NRA doesn’t want people exercising their rights, never have. They just want to make money off of those who will do so at whatever cost.

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        That’s what I thought as well… But somehow there would be a market with people who’s rights are ambushed and violated right now…

        Don’t mistake that for me condoning any form of violence or people carrying guns.

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          What if I walked into your house and just started taking whatever I wanted, would you condone any form of violence then? And if not, where do you live?

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        Take my upvote for the differentiation.

        I don’t condone any form of people carrying guns (and that includes police etc). But it seems odd that they don’t try to make “protect your rights” a marketing campaign similar to all those green washing campaigns that try to market on climate change. I seriously question it’s because of any kind of morals on gun sales

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    Are you kidding me, the ven diagram of ICE and NRA has to be pretty round.

    This is what so many of these assholes want.