Boolshit like this is why I gotta remember to stock up on ammo well before the 2024 election.
LOTS of liberal sorts been buying guns. Women, POC and LGBT folks have been the largest gun buying demographic for a few years. They'll be stocking up in case of a Trump win. I'm an old white guy, but I'll be joining them.
And of course the conservative sorts will pull their usual freakout in case a Democrat wins. Even when it's the same Democrat from the last 4-years. You would think they'd have learned after 8-years of Obama. LOL nope. Panicky little bitches.
Look in the mirror because that's the person most likely to get shot with your guns. Who do you love most in the world? Because they're number 2. This fantasy that gun ownership protects people, especially from the government needs to fucking die.
The natives had Guns; the Black Panthers had guns; Briana Taylor had an armed protector too.
I'm certain of it, and that's why I didn't have a gun until I was 39. Too mentally unstable. Suicidal ideation is no longer on the table, and hasn't been for some time.
And yes, my guns could certainly fight the government. I'd likely die, but how many armed citizens fighting back would the government continue to prosecute? And it's not like they would call in airstrikes on my hood. And how many soldiers would even participate, knowing they would be under fire from every 2nd window?
I watched a video last year of jihadis randomly shooting up a residential block of apartments after last year's Iranian protests. Think that could happen in America? Men running and gunning while the civilians all cower in helplessness? Why or why not?
Or would they even start? Look OP, I'm 52 and never imagined America falling into the fascist hellscape we're facing now. The front runner for the GOP candidacy just called me "vermin", an "internal enemy" that must be exterminated. And he has a solid chance of winning.
So if you think things are bad now, just how bad would they be if the government knew, for a fact, that the citizenry was helpless? I'm not taking bets, not anymore, not with what I've seen this past decade.
You can choose to be peaceful, but if you are unarmed and practiced, you are merely harmless.
Don't be coy, who are you going to shoot? People are being killed so you can buy guns and ammo on a whim, especially those "women, POC and LGBT folks".
Or is this just more astro-turfing from the gun lobby, targeting a new demographic after saturating their core "idiots, racists and domestic terrorists" market?
The fearful, anxious and nervous have always been a core demographic for the gun lobby.
This is the a big reason for gun control.
- some people are hunters, collectors or hobbyists. They probably follow gun safety and security rules, or live away from people so who cares
- some people are idiots, racists, and domestic terrorists. Hopefully the FBI is on the case
- but the nervous, anxious and fearful probably always have a loaded weapon at hand, not secured because they may “need it”, and are more likely to just start blasting away out of their own fear
Yeah, the idiots, racists and domestic terrorists make the headlines with mass killings, but it’s the nervous, anxious and fearful that present the most danger for most of us. At any time, there could be an unsecured loaded weapon around for the taking or pulled out because someone got startled, or is in an unexpected situation, or approached by someone with the wrong skin color, or even in what should have been a minor altercation
There are 393.3 million guns owned by private citizens in the United States. 46% of all households own at least one gun. Do you really think the gun manufacturers need to troll an overall meaningless social network, posting misinformation on some random-ass meme to push their agenda? I'm hoping your comment was satire and I just have a broken satire meter.
Plot twist: they come for his arms
They cannot do that! He has his right to bear arms!
just the left one, then
It's too bad they keep talking about it as if it's going to happen, then.
EDIT: This is going to be my only response to people who say dems aren't trying to take away / ban guns from now on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW1HPoqqB_8
You people are funny.
Reminder that it was Reagan who took guns away in California because he didnt want Black Panthers having guns.
Nobody who has been on Reddit or Lemmy for any amount of time needs a reminder about that because it gets repeated 1 million times per day on every platform whenever gun control is mentioned.
That's the point. It's easier to control people with fear, uncertainty and doubt than with any kind of tangible action. Just give people something to hate and tell them you are their savior. It doesn't actually matter if you do anything about "it", just blame your enemies for your "failures".
Does that remind you of any quotes?
dems keep talking about taking all the guns?
When?
Refer to this comment, unless you're being sarcastic: https://lemmy.world/comment/5707227
I see it's the gun lobby's season to milk profits again?
(checks watch) yeah it's been about 12 minutes since a toddler got murdered, cooldown period is complete.
Saw a great comment once,
"On a scale of Marx to Reagan, how do you feel about gun control?"
I like to throw this one around:
"Can you fucking believe a sitting President of the United States said, ‘Take the guns first, go through due process second’?!"
"Biden can eat a dick!"
"That was actually President Trump."
The funny thing is that both Marx and Reagan were draft deferred and neither ever served in the military.
Both were fine with other people doing the fighting.
Still waiting for the vaccine to kill me. I was told I would be dead by September!
I’m a Dem. Give me your guns.
(e: did it work?)
Illinois is certainly trying
As long as they don't take your bear arms
