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The damage is already done. The left have gone so far to ban nearly every firearm, put up barriers and fees for purchasing, use gun buybacks to get the poor less armed instead of reinforcing training or encouraging proper handling now the right are well armed and are filling the ranks of ICE to trample on Americans rights.
Right that's why it's so difficult to get a firearm in the US /s
It’s not even that hard to get guns here in Canada. I do not get what this US gun idiocy is all about.
Also, its liberals doing those things, not the Left. I really wish Americans would take the 30 seconds it takes to learn the difference. Its absolutely exhausting to constantly have to correct and explain.
Fascist elites use the media to destroy the meaning of any word that poses a threat to power. "Liberal", "Woke" "antifa" and countless others have all been deliberately beaten to death by repeated deliberate misuse. When a well meaning articulate thinker tries to discuss any matter of importance and uses a correct word, they find the person being spoken too misunderstands the topic because words mean something different to them.
Articulate intellectual discussion can't disseminate to the public and compete with all the major news sources distorting language. Orwell warned us, but too many people can't read.
Yeah but it doesn’t make the libs who are being willfully ignorant any less annoying.
Canadian gun culture and American gun culture is very very different. Unless you are on a range or hunting, you cannot have your firearm loaded or even unlocked in Canada. Most guns are limited to 5 rounds in the magazine and there are strict regulations around barrel length. Canada also has a loose gun registry for many of the firearms sold. Canada doesn't have stand your ground or castle laws but genuine self defense is often okay after lengthy court processes.
True and fair.
You have to keep explaining it because you guys keep trying to shift the definition around. The way everyone else has always understood it, "Left" was always short for "Left-wing" and is the umbrella term for everything on the left end of the political spectrum. "Liberal", "Socialist", "Communist", etc, are all subsets of "Left".
No, nobody is changing the definitions, and liberal has never been part of the left. Wtf do you mean we keep changing it? Who is we? The actual leftists for as long as I’ve been alive who keep telling you liberals that you aren’t leftists? The countless books and essays and political figures from longer than I’ve been alive who are telling you that you aren’t part of the left? I mean MLK and Malcolm X immediately come to mind, so how is this a change in definition at all?
I'm sorry you don't like the common colloquial understanding of the term "Left" but that's what it means to the common person who isn't steeped in political theory. Hence why leftist on here have to constantly point out that "Liberal" doesn't fit their definition of "Left".
No, its not OUR DEFINITION, it is THE DEFINITION, and American liberals keep trying to change it and then wonder why leftists wont vote for their candidates. Also only in the US is that the common term for the left. Because y’all dont want to read or learn anything and then dont understand why people get annoyed with you about it.
Nice try, but not American.
Well, thats fair, theres liberals who purposely don’t understand what words mean in every country, they just mostly seem to come from America. Doesn’t make your attitude any less annoying.
No, its not OUR DEFINITION, it is THE DEFINITION, and American liberals keep trying to change it and then wonder why leftists wont vote for their candidates. Also only in the US is that the common term for the left. Because y’all dont want to read or learn anything and then dont understand why people get annoyed with you about it.
Liberalism has always included free markets and isn't the left. It's only the US dichotomy of liberal vs. conservative and the volume and reach their media has that confuses the issue.
Wut?
Plenty of leftists own guns. They're just not our personality.
You keep saying "left" when you clearly mean "liberal". Do you know the difference?
Bro I live in America, labels mean absolutely shit the next day.
Name one far left state in the US. If you're able, that's a sign you need help.
.... Could you name one of these "far left" states please? Or just clarify what you mean by "far left"? Because I think our definitions must be very different.
Washington Oregon and California. Have you ever looked a map? They are as far to the left as you can get!
Man its so hard to get a shotgun from Walmart. Truly an exasperating experience where I walked in without one, and walked out with one. Get over yourself
The way you use "the poor" says a lot about how you view others and also a lot about yourself.
Except for the fact that I am right. Amirite?
Cry more you servile little pig. Half of the problem in this country with weapons is how accessible they are. Fancying yourself to be the "good guy with a gun" makes you look like a fucking moron in the face of every piece of evidence that suggests the overabundance of weapons in this country is the reason we see so much needless violence.
So let me get this straight. You think we shouldn't have firearms because the police are going to protect us? Holy shit the mental gymnastics in your sick head should be in the upcoming Olympics. Congrats!
Why are you putting words in my mouth? The police wouldn't even need firearms in the way they do if it wasn't for the incredible amount of weapons in this country. This is how most reasonable countries around the world work. Firearms are relegated to extreme situations that most law enforcement officers don't have access to. Not to mention most countries require what is equivalent to a couple year degree of schooling to be a LEO
Guns keep me safe from crazy people looking to waste my ass. Stand Your Ground.
You are a lost cause go jerk off with your guns somewhere else.
Now you say you want to shoot your government
Say that shit yourself, coward.
I mean...
There are a number of individuals who have motive to take me out. I must be prepared.
Alright, Donald
The sith are just going to block your bullets with their light sabers