It’s almost as if it was all bullshit to get you to donate to a organization specifically designed to enrich its officers and gun manufacturers.
That’s wildly underselling it. The financial aspect is almost anecdotal. The 2nd amendment movement has only ever served one purpose above everything else: Arm white people to manage, deter, and even lynch black people, as well as to prepare for the eventual transition to fascism.
This is part of why the Great American Project was doomed to degenerate into fascism long decades Maga was a thing. Wildly racist violent thugs were given the sociopolitical power to establish this whole charade about “resisting tyranny” when it was only ever about minorities. Always. Even supposed liberals bought into this lie, eternal shame upon these useful idiots. Yet every time since the American Civil War where black people started actually organizing and exercising their 2A right ended with those rights gutted or those communities actually being fucking bombed. That should have been pretty telling. But Americans collectively kept up the repeatedly disproven pretense that this was about “fundamental rights”.
Anyway if you can’t tell recent events have got me pretty fired up about the innumerable ways in which american self-mythology has only ever served fascist agendas.
They won’t do that. Every time some fucking pig uses their horse to step on a protestor they nut.
The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons
Throughout the late 1960s, the militant Black nationalist group used their understanding of the finer details of California’s gun laws to underscore their political statements about the subjugation of African-Americans. In 1967, 30 members of the Black Panthers protested on the steps of the California statehouse armed with .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns and .45-caliber pistols and announced, “The time has come for Black people to arm themselves.”
The display so frightened politicians—including California governor Ronald Reagan—that it helped to pass the Mulford Act, a state bill prohibiting the open carry of loaded firearms, along with an addendum prohibiting loaded firearms in the state Capitol. The 1967 bill took California down the path to having some of the strictest gun laws in America and helped jumpstart a surge of national gun control restrictions.
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In contrast to the NRA’s rigid opposition to gun control in today’s America, the organization fought alongside the government for stricter gun regulations in the 1960s. This was part of an effort to keep guns out of the hands of African-Americans as racial tensions in the nation grew. The NRA felt especially threatened by the Black Panthers, whose well-photographed carrying of weapons in public spaces was entirely legal in the state of California, where they were based.
NRA seems like a bunch of sniveling, boot-licking, white nationalist fascists IMO
Yep. That’s what they are.
This is why most gun owners prefer GOA. NRA just inserts itself as the face of gun owners, doesn’t actually represent us. GOA is actually libertarian, is for armed citizens not militarized cops. Stays in its lane with politics. Doesn’t go out of its way to get bad PR with left.
Thinking gun owners like the NRA is about on the same level as thinking we shoot clips. They are the AARP of guns. They exist only to collect money from idiots.
Best they can do is wing a few reporters.
Read this as “Cmon do a racist tyranny” at first. Like, damn thats pretty mask off, and hello welcome to the last decade…
But yeah, “resist” works too.
And I read this as “Cmon do a racist [T slur]” , to which I say no thank you. I don’t find racists attractive tyvm.
Oh they will rise up, but it will be on the side of tyranny.
Uh, the average level of American marksmanship that we’ve seen suggests that tyranny is perfectly safe.
Suddenly, the storm troopers in Star Wars make sense
300 yards with iron sights on an AR platform is pretty tough. I’m assuming that’s the shot you’re referring to.
Note: “average”
Thomas Matthew Crooks came the closest, but he was one of three in 2024 alone. And nearly a dozen, depending on how you count them. There were two different ricin poisoning attempts. One even involved a stolen fork lift.
“From my cold dead hands!”
They actually apparently want to die, not actually keep their guns.
I mean, we all knew that the NRA was on the fascists’ side, but what about all those leftist gun owners that kept spamming the “under no pretext” quote after every school shooting? Surely they’ll be starting their glorious revolution any minute now, right?
All 12 of them?
Democrat-voting socialist here, this argument is fucking stupid because nothing is stopping the Left from also buying guns and doing what this post is implying. Y’all just want an easy target to hate and impotently complain online about, when you could also go buy a gun, organize, and stop tyranny yourself.
Fuck Trump fuck Republicans, but also fuck Democrats, including you the person reading this, for being associated with gun fearing pussies who want other people to do the hard work for you.
ICE is raiding the places with the strictest gun laws. Plenty of Hispanics here in the South, don’t see them fucking with Georgia.
Blue states. They’re raiding blue states and ignoring red states.
Oh no, they’re all over fucking Texas. At least in the cities. San Antonio just had a BUNCH of people arrested at the Courthouses last week. Its fucking infuriating.
same same
And your point? One of these things is just like the other.
CA and NYC seem to be top of the news and they clearly have the toughest gun laws. NYC may as well be in another country and CA is pretty ridiculous.
Are you suggesting they’re afraid of gun owners firing on ICE to protect their undocumented neighbors? Or that the people they’re detaining may defend themselves with force, even though undocumented immigrants can’t purchase or possess firearms in red OR blue states?
They’re afraid of agitating their voters and losing votes. Guns have nothing to do with it.
Ever notice the fascists don’t show when guns are around? This whole site was screaming with joy, and I along with them, when armed people showed out to protect drag queens reading at libraries.
Someone firing on their foot soldiers is the best gift anyone could give a fascist would-be dictator.
