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I hope we do not see a repeat of the 2020 Summer of Love (I know that's a chud phrase I'm trying to #TakeItBack) where things build to a fever pitch but ultimately peter out. I do like seeing the libs get radicalized, or at least get woke, in real time.
I think it is super common among people like this to see firearms as some inscrutable beast with its own agency, rather than a tool they can read the instructions for. And they think then the only way to uncover their mysteries is to be initiated into the secret cult of knowledge by some chud NRA instructor or mil/LEO. Or in this case, organized Black Marxists
to come and save them.
Point is I wish these wokifying libs knew that they could actually help themselves. And that the success of the Panthers is not rooted in protesting, but the very un-sexy work of community organizing.
What Rebecca would really benefit from, IMO, is someone to tell her that she can teach herself:
Now this (well intentioned and consciously self-developing) lib will have taught themselves everything they hoped to learn and they didn't have to spend a penny with chuds who want them violated or waiting for a cadre to come and teach them to stand on their own two feet.
And once thus empowered, realize that this didn't actually create a revolutionary movement
and they have to go out and talk to their neighbors 
100% agree with this..saw a similar trend of lefties buying guns and then immediately getting sucked into the worst firearms training advice that they could find, and completely missing the part where you have to go and start shooting a competition sport (literally any, I don't care if it's steel challenge, trap shooting, or USPSA) and become proficient.
Balancing a coin on your pistol and squeezing the trigger is a terrible drill and just because 100 people think it isn't a bad drill doesn't make it true.
I'm not trying to gatekeep, but the number of leftists who are actually decent at shooting are going to get drowned out by people who picked up a gun yesterday and learned to dry fire this morning.
I saw it happen last time, and I'm sure it will happen again.
Learning first aid isn't a "sexy" part of this stuff but is so necessary. Learning how to use a tourniquet could save someone's life.
Then cleaning a gun, oiling it, fixing a jam without pointing a loaded weapon at everyone around you.
I took a couple comrades shooting and it was one of the most stressful days of the year. The amount of times I've had to run over and point the gun down range before they turned around with a loaded weapon, finger on the trigger, to ask a question was way too much for me to handle. I even had another friend come with me to help them get acquainted to shooting and it was still a lot of work making sure people didn't injure themselves or put lives in danger.
Even loading the gun takes work. Putting bullets inside of the magazines is hard work if you're not used to it, then cocking the gun back to fire without pointing it at your own feet? Getting upper body strength is also majorly important when handling a gun.
So true.
The comment about taking others to the range and having to then constantly be on alert to manage everyone, you made me remember some similar instances to what you had to manage. Wild stuff. It's a lot of work and the best is when it's a public range or state game lands where there are other people that are equally unsafe but you can't do anything about. Lots of hair went grey that day....
I mean that's every new shooter. It's ok. People have to be new so they can get old at it
I didn't miss that part, I have a well-informed and holistic picture of how lacking I am lol.
But I don't think you are gatekeeping to say that bad training can be actively restrictive. Even in general, someone might be better off understanding they are unskilled in a task, vs having learned that task inadequately or incorrectly and thinking, put me in coach, I'm ready to play!
Absolutely. We all start somewhere
What's that?
I assume you are asking clarification for the last part? A long arm is simply a long barreled weapon like a rifle or a shotgun, and a sling is attached to it to allow you to carry it hands-free on your body, aid in weapon retention if get jostled while holding it, and can also be utilized as a 'hasty sling' by wrapping it around your support arm to aid in aiming.
So go tell her.
unfortunately she has since posted about taking a potentially permanent break from social media
I didn't take this in a bad way but I wanted to respond, I don't think this is a "be the change you want to see" situation. The kind of thought process the OP on bsky is going through is something we're going to see more of and something we saw a lot on 2020. So I meant less that "someone outta go tell her" but rather that when, not if, we encounter this in our own circles we can engage constructively.