Conservatives want guns to protect themselves from a bunch of DEI boogymen that don't exist. The left is buying guns to protect themselves from the boogymen that are currently publicly stripping away/violating their rights while doing multiple genocides.

Trying to act like the two groups are the same makes you either a boldfaced liar or an idiot. But hey, at least you get to be smugly superior with your snappy little meme.

Yeah you're right, instead I should trust that the police will use restraint, arrive instantly, and do the right thing 🤡

I don't think 'feeling safe' is the goal so much as the understanding that the Nazis are making a huge comeback, and that votes and protest signs don't generally do a great job of killing Nazis.

Like, if you're going down anyway, might as well bag a few Nazis on your way out; or maybe you see some Nazis harrassing someone and you're a safe distance away with a rifle.

So... you could be part of solving a gigantic problem, but it will 100% not make you safe. To the contrary, it'll make you a target.

I didnt think feeling safe was why liberals where buying guns. I thought it was to make oppressors and aggressors feel less safe.

Armed minorities are harder to suppress.

Feeling safe isn't the point of having guns.

The point is to make your oppressors feel unsafe.

This meme assumes liberals, or the left broadly construed, view guns in the same way.

Conservatives want to bring their AR-15 into Burger King, because they view guns as a sort of magic totem of protection.

Of the left gun owners I know, liberals, Anarchists, Marxists, etc. They have a far more grounded view of guns, and see them much more for the tool that they are.

Don't buy a gun because it'll make you feel safe. Buy a gun to piss off OP.

It's not going to make you safer. Best you can hope for is to take some of the motherfuckers with you when they come for you.

Right, the only people who should be armed are the christian nationalists who are already armed to the teeth and itching to use them. As we all know, nothing bad ever happens when people without guns confront people with guns. It worked out great for the native Americans!

Okay. Governor Reagan

I've always been of the belief that more guns cause more death, and I still hold that belief.

However, the last decade has proven to me that this country is far too stupid to maintain a democracy so, unfortunately, the guns are necessary, because things are about to get a whole lot sketchier in this nation. And as things degrade, I need protection, particularly from low IQ aggressive conservatives.

Traditional gun enthusiasts have "their scenario". That is, the thing they think they will need their cache of ARs and survival gear and 10k rounds. SHTF, end of the world as we know it, meth addled home intruder, zombie apocalypse, whatever.

I think folks on the left never had "their scenario" and correctly assessed the odds of those scenarios happening was low. So, logically, no need to arm themselves.

Those odds have changed and we've been watching those scenarios play out live on social media. Leftists have taken notice and are adjusting their relationship with firearms appropriately.

Purchasing a firearm is one thing, but if you fail to practice consistently, you will fuck up.

Really a question of whether you still trust the state apparatus to protect you and your loved ones from physical violence. For the right, the need to protect themselves was never anything but a bogeyman dreamt up by gun manufacturers and racist opportunists. The calculus may well differ for other folks given the current state of things and the lessons one might draw from history.

Well history says the states started to have more gun laws after the black panthers, so maybe this is the way to get gun control in pacific non violent way.

We wouldn't be in this mess if the left weren't so damned anti 2nd amendment. Like, the amount of people I know in the Midwest that simply refuse to ever vote Democrat solely because of guns is insane.

That, and the DNC trying to make Hillary president. Then not having Biden step down due to health in like year 2. The left could win some things if they didn't suck at it and weren't also corrupt as hell.

I think ICE might behave differently around a crowd of protesters open carrying with body armor

Liberals never want leftists owning guns cause when liberals send Pinkertons to murder us they don't want us fighting back.

Marx said the proletariat must never be disarmed.

yeah its amazing to me that the country with more guns than people is as of late surging to get more guns. the craziest part is, its really hard to blame the leftists for this conclusion, given the context.

How does this meme have so many upvotes while every response to it is in opposition of it?

John Brown's body lies a-molderin' in the grave

But his soul goes marching on