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I mean this song is dumb as fuck but the quote is misleading.
That last line is the start of a second verses focusing on how you can't take his granpappy's gun - it's not part of a continued threat from the first verse
OP definitely knew this, because the punctuation doesn't even line up as if it were the end of the verse. This is deliberately misleading, which is weird, because the song is obviously already ridden with shit lines.
The entire thing is a threat of violence, see all the un-bolded parts. Like literally what is different about a small town in this song which forces people to stop burning flags, except that they will violently prevent you from exercising your first amendment rights?
Immediately mentioning a gun is specifying gun violence but threatening violence in reaction to free speech in general is illegal and an immoral call for vigilante justice.
Yes the implied violence and the introduction of grandpas gun are purely coincidental! How misleading of OP!
It is misleading. The second verse literally has its own implied threat.
This is just how songs, paragraphs, and language in general work.
Just because the second verse literally has its own implied threat does not mean the first verse is unrelated. In songs and paragraphs adjacent sentences are typically related- its how English works- but I can't speak for all languages.
It's not "unrelated". It's just not part of the same shitty statement. It's part of a different shitty statement.
Working hard defending this guy aren't you?
No. I'm against people intentionally misleading others even when I agree with their general thrust.
If people stopped buying in when they were being obviously mislead, we wouldn't have had Trump
This really shouldn't be such a hard concept for you to grasp.
That's a lot of words to say, 'yeah, I am spending a lot of personal, unpaid time to defend someone I don't know'.
Defenses of people don't normally include statements about how the person is shit lol
Except I'm literally attacking both the song and the OP's lying comment.
Quit being stupid. It's a bad look.
Except that's not how songs are received. We don't read them. We listen to them. And the two topic dog whistle is as old as Jim Crow.
Imagine listening to music and not being able to tell where different verses are. Song must be confusing!
Exactly.
Also, these motherfuckers can't see the joke in my comment. People be trippin hard lol
maybe if it was funny, you wouldn't be getting downvoted to oblivion? but go ahead and keep blaming others lol
Well, looks like some of the assholes escaped reddit after all.