• ByteWizard@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Because it’s just another scare tactic. We know there are some dangers having firearms around.

    That’s why we want to make sure the goverment isn’t the only people allowed to have them. First comes registration, then confiscation, then the tyranny.

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      11 months ago

      Andy Weaver, the Branch Dividians, the Black Panthers, Native Americans, Mexico, the Philippines, Hawaiians, Germany, Japan, Spain, England, Canada, and Italy have all resisted the US government with arms.

      But OK, you’re going to keep 'em in line with you’re pew pew pew. Meanwhile that danger that you acknowledge is real.

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        11 months ago

        The Black Panthers one is particularly ironic given the NRA’s full-throated support of gun control laws in California (passed by good ol Ronnie R. when he was governor) that happened once black people started arming themselves.

        And nothing has changed. Never forget Philando Castile. The only reason they feel empowered is because the ones who actually want to take guns from “certain people” happen to agree with them ideologically.

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      11 months ago

      Buddy, the “government” isn’t scared of you and your buddies LARPing in the woods cheap AR-15s and tacticool gear.

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        11 months ago

        Hamas demonstrated that the most advanced military occupation in the world can not stop a determined people from fighting back.

        … course, Israel is demonstrating that the most advanced military occupation in the world will have its unlimited bloody revenge, so-

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          11 months ago

          Hamas was also born of generations of blood feuds and escalating revenge. Generational shit.

          Compare that to… (checks notes) wanting people to get vaccinated before going into public during a worldwide pandemic.