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[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 months ago

So where are all those second amendment loving NRA patriots that believe that they need military grade firearms to protect their freedom from the tyranny of the government?

Because if you're waiting for the opportune moment, this is it.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 months ago

Submitting job applications to ICE.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

All these years we've been told that the reason it's necessary to let innocent children die in mass shootings is just in case the need to overthrow a tyrannical government arises. Guess they died for nothing

[-] tankfox@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You know what fully ended school shootings? The pandemic lockdown. We know what causes school shootings; schools are an underfunded nightmare pressure cooker half a step away from the prison system. We know how to fix it, change the system. Since we rushed back to the system that causes the shootings as quickly as we could, I guess you could absolutely say they died for nothing and will continue to die for nothing, probably until there are no more humans left to die for nothing.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Turns out the solution was to ban schools. I'm surprised republicans aren't using this to try to ban school altogether.

I've often wondered how many people planned mass shootings that they didn't go through with because of the pandemic.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The second amendment loving NRA patriots are furiously masturbating to the fascist takeover of the federal government. Do not for one second believe that they believe in the second amendment to overthrow a Republican president. They absolutely would if a Democrat was president.

The biggest issue gun-owning liberals have is that they lack organization whereas the conservatives have it in spades. We desperately need progressives to begin banding together and laying out a plan on what happens when Trump's troops march toward Maryland, a liberal state.

We are quickly reaching the point where we need people who are not only willing to fight for our country, but are willing to die for it as well. I suspect many of us here are willing to do the former, but not many of us are willing to do the latter.

[-] imTIREDnhungryboss@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I'm ready for the next life death doesn't scare me, I just can't start it or anything else other than comments, made promises

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

You keep disarming yourself. The right has all the firearms. Who is driving the fascist? Is it the left? No... it's the right wing....stop trying to disarm yourself, you make no fucking sense.

[-] xyzzy@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

There are lots and lots of lefties with guns who know how to use them. Many of them live in the Pacific Northwest, though certainly not all of them.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What? The PNW has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US.

What are these lefties armed with? Rocks?

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

In the PNW you can buy AR-15s, shotguns, rifles, semi-auto pistols, and more.

I think you're confusing PNW with New York or some other location with "strict gun control", which really just means that you travel to another state to purchase firearms anyway.

Firearm sales have tripled since 2000, that's our bread and butter.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://www.atg.wa.gov/firearms

https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/state/washington/

https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/state/oregon/

What? You got AWB and high cap mag bans...and 3 day waiting periods...you do have some of the strictest gun control on the books.

Idaho is the only place that has very little gun laws, but the majority of the left doesn't live there.

https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/state/idaho/

Idaho has voted red for decades now, so please don't tell me there are tons of lefties there...

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, I don't think being able to buy an AR-15 with a 3-day wait is "strict gun control", but you can believe that if you'd like.

It's, like, the exact opposite of strict gun control. It's a gun delay, oh no

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yea...so you ignored everything I posted. We weren't talking about a single law. We were comparing the rest of the states with the PNW. Having a waiting period is still gun control and just for the record...does absolutely fuck all to curb gun violence.

[-] WraithGear@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

and here we are,

you’re validating the fears of the very people you dismissed, in the most backward ‘you might have been right about this’ I’ve ever seen, after decades of making gun ownership a partisan issue.

and then you ask me why haven’t i sacrificed my life to go on a murder spree… to kill your enemies… this is exactly what you are asking.

i don’t see where to join the Northwest Secessionist Forces, or any real opposition group to tyranny right now. what? is schumer going to send another nastygram?

i highly recommend that if you are or know a disabled person, someone on the LBGTQ+ spectrum, or a minority, to get armed and get proficient in its use.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

and then you ask me why haven’t i sacrificed my life to go on a murder spree… to kill your enemies… this is exactly what you are asking.

No, it would be the people that you claim to be your enemies, but when push comes to shove, you're just full of shit.

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