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For decades, the image of gun ownership in America was white, rural and Republican, but that's been changing, according to gun clubs, trainers, Second Amendment advocates and academic researchers.

They say more liberals, people of color and LGBTQ folks have been buying guns for years and particularly since Trump's reelection in 2024. This story was based on more than 30 interviews. David Phillips is on the training team of the Liberal Gun Club, which has chapters in more than 30 states and provides a haven for liberals to train and learn about guns. He says club membership has grown from 2,700 in November to 4,500 today. Requests for training, he says, have quintupled.

"The concern is about the supporters of the right-wing who feel that they have been given permission to run roughshod at least, if not commit outright violence against people they don't like," Phillips says.

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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Y'know we could have had spaceships each since the 1930s?

*[Edit: No. Seriously. Follow the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla. Take a look at the Sonora Aero Club from 1850. See? We never needed rockets. Even air-planes came after the zero-inertia-propulsion innovations. See how much we're kept down?] *

But sure, lets just keep succumbing to this manufactured scarcity and provocations unto civil war, pitting us against each other, falling for pitchforks-vs-torches, buying more pitchforks in fear, believing the rumours the torch people want to take away your pitchforks, or even that other pitchforkers are plotting against you. Yeah, keep believing that narrative from the plutarchs, kleptarchs, attercoparchs, oligarchs, billionaires in the handshake clubs. Maybe they care. :3 Maybe your neighbour is your enemy. Be very afraid! Obey! LOL.

Or we'll stop falling for it already?

PS, 2A means we're all to be afforded access to the best of means... what better than a spaceship that you cannot crash, safe enough for a 2 year old to fly home, can sustain human life indefinitely, can print another of itself instantly, zero point energy powered, with zero inertia propulsion (means it can accelerate or stop instantly, and do high speed right angle turns, etc), for your defence against rotters foreign and domestic?

Do you have a spaceship yet?

Everything else is noise [or worse ~ like the whole guns thing, keeping us down, keeping us divided and conquered, keeping us fearful, keeping us in a prisoner dilemma and tragedy of the commons, keeping us from taking our countries back from the crooked club who couped it decades ago... arguably a century ago. Does anyone like what Edward Bernays (or Hearst, or Anslinger, or Hitler) did to us? No? Maybe we should undo that, and get back to where we should be by now [i.e. spaceships for everybody]. And again, no, I am not trying to take your guns away from you. I'm saying that's a divisive weapon of mass distraction to turn us against each other, to take our attention off the crooks in power. Time to party like it's 1999 (or even 2019) again, and stop falling for the weapons of mass distraction.].

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf -1 points 4 months ago

PS(2),

Yeah... I'd probably succumb to it too, and buy a gun or two, if I lived there.

Easy to be an angel in heaven.