• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    22 days 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.

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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      22 days 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

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        The right never fucking meant it. They wanted the stockpiles as a way of virtue signaling to each other and a way of signaling to out-groups (POC, liberals, uppity women, LGBTQ+) the not-so-veiled threat of that stockpile.

        Also, they wanted that stockpile so that when some shitty fascist government - like this one - gives them the go-ahead to join up with death squads, that’s they already have the arsenal for it.

        All that freedom and liberty mumbo-jumbo - just so much bullshit.

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      22 days 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.

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        And there it is.

        Half agree with you, the other half still believe in a sane world where laws matter and mean something.

        Man.

        I’ll never own weapons myself. I have one pistol that probably can’t even fire a shot. It’s old, it’s cheap, it’s half broken.

        Even if it could, I don’t believe in violence, and even if I did I’m not built for it.

        Still, I have studied some history. I know that it is necessary at times. It won’t ever be me though. I couldn’t ever harm another human being.

        If that means I lose, fuck it. Life is short anyway.

    • WraithGear@lemmy.world
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      22 days 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.