I can tell they mean it negatively, but they make it sound like a great time to join the protest.
Being Madison, it could go either way. The Capitol is very lefty, but there's hillbilly farmland 20 minutes outside town.
I love the irony here but this is 100% meant to bait counter protestors with guns to show up to the next one, especially in Wisconsin, and especially with the current administration that has no problem holding a double-standard (liberal protestors with guns are dangerous, conservative protestors with guns are patriots).
Leftists don't have the same privilege as white conservatives do walking around with an open carry. I hope anyone bringing their firearm to a protest understands the risks involved and is ready/willing to use it if things escalate.
Ugh. I still hate guns. Guns kill people and the US obsession with them will never make sense to me.
But at this point it's probably good that it's not only the supporters if the lunatic fascist oligarchy that are armed. It hurts to admit, but I'd rather see a Nazi shot dead than a decent human being. Heck, if I were in the US I might learn how to shoot a gun at this point.
Marx said workers should be armed. That sentiment didn't come out of nowhere; shit like this is the reason why.
I remember when conservatives turned against guns because the Black Panthers armed themselves against racists
That's when American gun control began in earnest. Like many things, the authoritarian approach is rooted in racism.
This bitch loved it when armed people showed up at a library.
I'd be armed if my wife wasn't so leery about firearms. She and my father-in-law are part of a ethnic minority that is specifically targeted by white supremacists and my state has active Nazi and Third Position groups. Given the way shit's going, I want to be prepared for anything.
The only things that ever slowed the Nazis down was Russian winters and getting shot, and we're all out of Russian winters.
you should have a discussion about it, see if her views have changed since the election.
Shits scary outside right now, wishing you the best of health ❤️
Incredibly based
FUCK YES!! Arm the fuck up. The rights not correct about much but a good guy with a gun can indeed stop a bad guy with a gun
Hey, an actual good person with a gun!
Based.
Im completely against guns but still i have to admit that the trans ak47 is cool
Here I was, just minding my own business enjoying my Second Amendment rights, and you people have to freak out on me!
Guns are not exclusive to Nazis 😉
GOOD. UNIRONICALLY.
this is what we need. Parity. Like guns or not, you need them at this point or you're just going to be under the boot without ever having the tools you needed to fight back.
Awesome! Protect yourselves you beautiful queer people.
Honestly it’s good for the MAGA crowd to see that normal people in America are armed too. They see themselves as wolves among sheep, while the masses are armed only with their useless empathy and critical thinking skills.
Ive legit met a couple who were surprised I like blades and that I collect them. My three favorite ones are my 1942 Machete made for the US Army, my modern Ka-bar I bought at the Army surplus warehouse in Idaho Falls, and an M3 knife replica I bought from a local dealer.
Now imagine how theyd react if I had a gun, though if shit goes down ill just jack it from one of their still warm corpses.
while the masses are armed only with their useless empathy and critical thinking skills.
I miss the gold award here, you deserve one.
May that firearm smash many a fascist. They only action they can get from this piece involves a "rat-a-ta-ta-tat".
FYI:
Libs of TikTok is a handle for various far-right[a] and anti-LGBT[b] social-media accounts operated by Chaya Raichik (/ˈxɑːjə ˈraɪtʃɪk/ KHAH-yə RY-chik),[10] a former real estate agent.[11][12][13] Raichik uses the accounts to repost content created by left-wing and LGBT people on TikTok, and on other social-media platforms, often with hostile, mocking, or derogatory commentary.
she’s one of the few people i would classify as literally evil
“Chaya Raichik” isn’t a good aryan name. It sounds foreign. I say this cause who she is as a person and who she associates with seems to support fascist and ethno-nationalist ideals.
I hope she gets everything she voted for.
She likely has some exit plan to Israel.
I hope she gets everything the men who support the same politicians as her voted for.
Good, every progressive should be armed. Its like the literal reason we have the second amendment in the first place.
That's a very modern interpretation of the second amendment popularized by conservatives. What it means 'literally' is hotly debated but only relatively recently did conservative pundents push this definition away from the arguably more 'literal' concept of organized state militias. If you think an arms race between liberal activists and right wing racist hillbillies (ie. Most of America) is going to end with the armed liberals winning, you need to check out the gun cabinets and gun sheds of the conservative homes in my town. Every time I see a ridiculous call to arms post like this on Lemmy I put some money aside to donate to one of my favorite gun control charities.
The rulings testing the militia part of the clause go back a long way establishing it is not a necessary part (and certainly it doesn't read that way).
Also Everytown's ideas are not based on evidence or even common sense. They can fuck right off.
Just because people don't put them in a literal showcase and make it their entire personality doesn't mean they don't own as many they just don't want to get robbed as badly.
Armed minorities are harder to oppress. Stay strapped people. We're not even a month into this shit yet
Under no pretext shall arms be surrendered from the workers!
Marginalized groups should bring more weapons to protests, then maybe we could get some god damn gun regulations like back when the NRA was against the black panthers brandishing them in public.
And a Defend Equality sticker on the stock! Super based. This person has an open invitation to all my backyard cookouts next summer.
PLEASE make !armedqweers@lemmy.blahaj.zone more popular
Look at the smile on that person's face. The world needs more of that person.
Now, as an average libsoftiktok follower, where do I call in the bomb threat? The gun owners house for owning the transgender gun? The gun manufacturer for making a transgender gun? The NRA for not making transgender guns illegal? The state capitol for allowing the transgender gun on their grounds? Or nowhere because there's evidence of the thing actually happening?
I don't get the take here.
Is this bad because....they had a gun?
Or is it bad because the gun had a transgender flag?
Aren't they all for gun rights?
They're for gun rights within the scope of their interpretation of the constitution. It's starts out "We the people" and when you don't consider someone a person, you don't consider them to have those same rights.
You make the fatal flaw of thinking there's reasoning behind their beliefs. They make up reasons to justify their beliefs. These reasons are always narrow-in-scope and context-dependant, but are often presented as generalized statements. They will change their argument to suit their aims.
rules for thee and not for me
Before I noticed the source, I just thought, “Badass!” Then I had the same question as you.
That’s not an AK-47.
What is it?
It’s impossible to tell because of low resolution image, but the “AK-47” or Type 1/2/3 AK hasn't been made in 70 years, and are very rare nowadays. Due to popular media, what most people think of when they hear AK-47 is the AKM, a cheaper and mass produced variant of the 7.62 AK, which this could be, but its more likely this is not a Russian-made rifle (only ~10-15% of AKs are Russian-made).
This machine…
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