When is the revolution you all needed your guns for?
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It's extra funny because I knew a Mexican American guy around the first Trump term who didn't care that Trump was racist because Republicans are pro-gun. I wonder how all that's working out for him. Not enough to look him up, but enough to laugh at his stubborn stupidity.
The Right Wing are remaining loyal to their only real value: loyalty and obedience to authority
This is a deeply misleading headline
It's 100% weapon's grade clickbait.
Of course it is. News hasn't EVER been able to make headlines not be over the top, all the way back to the days of the Gutenberg printing press
I fundamentally disagree. The fact that it still exists on paper is immaterial if you cannot safely exercise the right.
There are plenty of other forms of phrasing to communicate that though.
Well, the headline is an outright lie, not just misleading. But the point about the Democrats not screeching about this from every corner is a good one.
For the MAGAs keeping score at home:
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America First, no foreign entanglements. Yeah, tell it to Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, Gaza, Canada, Mexico, etc.
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Lower Prices on Day One - Still rising on Day 365
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Release the Epstein Files - except the really good stuff of course. Unless it exposes the nasty "victims," who were just slutty 13 year olds.
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Protect the 2nd Amendment, unless, y'know, you want to actually carry your gun the way the Constitution and SCOTUS allows. Can't be doing that. Soon they'll just take them away, but it will be okay if MAGA does it, right?
So with all your precious MAGA promises being broken, why are you still in? The open corruption? The open treason? The virtuosic incompetence? The paramilitary Death Squads murdering innocent American citizens in spontaneous firing squads? The humiliating daily court losses for their all important retaliatory prosecutions? The embarrassing public statements multiple times a day? The frenzied hours long manic posting of racist memes? The shitting his pants during press conferences?
I'll bet it's the Pedophilia. The one thing that MAGA can be absolutely counted on is to cover for Pedophilia. Hiding it is LITERALLY their most important job, and they are ALL on board with that objective
That's why ALL MAGAs are Pedophiles.
Spot on! Add Racism to your list.
At this point I am waiting for him to switch everything to the metric system
Here in Canada we have three major parties and a few minor ones. A decade or more ago ago our three major parties could be described as progressive, centerist, and conservative. These days they can be referree to as progressive, conservative/center-right, and far-right.
How many people do you suppose switched from the Conservitives to the Liberals, from the originally conservative to the now conservative/center-right, in more recent years as the parties changed their alignment and began representing different people? Next to fucking no one. Most originally Conservative voters, if they genuinely believed in what they were saying, should be voting Liberal right now as that party now aligns with their supposed views more closely. Liberals, likewise, only care about voting for the party that puts itself between the two options on either side, calling anyone to the right or left “extreme” or “idealists” no matter what their positions actually are and so it’s difficult to get them to actually make real change.
The moral of this story is that MAGA voters are voting based on following their tribe around and they are completely locked into branding and stereotypes. They believe anything they’re told because they want to align themselves with an image, not vote for a representative. The more this shit goes on the more I think the world needs to ban the idea of political parties so that voters have to actually listen to the campaign promises of candidates.
Conservatism is exclusively about in-group. Everything else is a post-hoc justification. They're just less, I don't know, morally developed. Like children.
That will most likely be the evolution. Parties just divide people. Sure it is a way to unite but they are too deeply entrenched in the worst ways
We definitely to give what you said a go everywhere
Some cities have non-partisan elections for offices like mayor. It seems like that would be a good thing, but it's really because some cities are so partisan, it can be hard to come up with a candidate from the opposing party. By making it non-partisan, they can offer more than one candidate, even if they are both from the same party.
He doesn't have the power to abolish 2a, he just has the ability to tell his DOJ to not investigate matters when his administration's agents violate it. This constitutes a massive abuse of executive power, fostering a culture of impunity and abuse but we all should understand that if and when executive and legislative power fall out of the hands of this admin, these sorts of crime have very long statutes of limitations and accountability (if belated) is entirely in the cards
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FYI - nothing happened
My dad has been saying that the Republicans were going to be the ones taking guns when people go on about "gun grabbing democrats" since Reagan apparently. I was only long enough to hear him say that around Bush era onward but this is my shocked face that he was right.
I fully agree with your father and I've been saying the same thing since the 2001 Patriot Act and when the Orange Kool-Aid guzzlers won in 2016. Those fucks will eventually abolish 2A for the full power grab.
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« Harris will comes for your guns » -MAGA
Dems campaigned on restricting gun ownership broadly.
Republicans campaigned on restricting civil liberties for liberals specifically.
I'm pro 2A and a lot of my 2A buddies knew damn well Harris wasn't coming after our guns because she was just going to continue what Biden was doing which was pretty much nothing.
Trump on the other hand has repeatedly lied about his stance on 2A, moved to ban accessories and certain firearms and at one point the ATF had the longest wait times under his first admin. The wait times are nearly non-existent but there are some who argue that is thanks to Biden.
And for those who claim that the "Gun Personality" people voted for Trump, I can tell you from first hand experience those gun nuts did not vote for Trump. It was the faux 2A who go to the range for a photoshoot and buy the Gucci gear who voted for Trump.
It was the faux 2A who go to the range for a photoshoot and buy the Gucci gear who voted for Trump.
I am FINALLY starting to see some guntubers start to call this shit out, and call attention to the fact that their community is getting overrun with people who don't actually care about proper gun safety and laws, and are only there for the politics and "masculinity" around having guns.
I hope this continues. I was first to speak up that we needed better gun laws in the US, but I also am a gun owner and have always been really disappointed how guns became a political issue and not a guarantee that these political issues don't overpower us and take away all our rights.
The left needs to arm the fuck up. Political capital comes from force and patriotism, it's a fucking shame the worst people have taken our most powerful tools for change in the US and used them to get us here.
The vast swaths of liberal America look at two sides, the right kissing the flag and promising to defend the country with their lives, and then they look to the left, spitting on the flag and demanding de-armement, and they make a choice which makes them feel safer. It's utterly stupid that they have this binary vision, but we have to understand how power comes from this perception, and we don't win without power.
Add two more factors. The fucking Russian and Chinese mobile phones responding on social media.
I hope to see you and your other 2A friends out in the streets. The folks I know are trying to catch up, but gun safety and marksmanship are slow skills to build, and we could use some support from the folks with the know-how.
Where I am, everyone on the street is carrying but you won't see it. We have constitutional concealed carry and even 60% of the little old ladies I know have one in their purse, and that's just what I know of.
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I thought that was hilarious given that she is known to carry and be proficient with a pistol, and Trump has never held a gun in his life.
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The US Attorney basically said no gun carry in Washington DC.
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This syndrome reached an apotheosis of sorts when Jeanine Pirro, best known as a reality TV judge and right-wing blowhard, and now (because of course!) appointed by Trump as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, issued this edict: if anyone brings “a gun into the District, you mark my words, you’re going to jail. I don’t care if you have a license in another district and I don’t care if you’re a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else.”
That article was so long to bury that.
Amending the constitution requires a super majority... Not a deranged despot.
He doesn't get to decide which parts of the Constitution are in force or not.
At the executive level, he gets to decide how the federal policing departments interpret statute and execute their department objectives.
In the modern era, that means taking a reading of "gun possession" as "physical threat to police" and permitting the police to respond to anyone they think might be carrying with lethal force. That's not a repeal of the 2nd amendment in a literal sense. But it does make open carrying extremely dangerous in practice.
Of course, this isn't news to everyone.
Being a Black gun owner in the US comes with a unique set of challenges. The Second Amendment is often not applied to Black gun owners in the same way it is applied to white gun owners. Lawfully armed Black people are often viewed as a threat and met with police violence, in part because of implicit bias that law enforcement is not immune to.
Philando Castille was a registered gun owner in St. Paul, Minnesota, who was shot and killed by police in front of his girlfriend and her daughter, after disclosing that he was armed. Alton Sterling, who was killed by police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was legally armed at the time of his death. Black Americans are disproportionately murdered or injured by police and Black gun owners describe being stereotyped and misperceived by law enforcement.
What we have is a white population that's catching up to the treatment enjoyed by minorities for decades.
Yes he does, because you're not fucking doing anything about it. You can say "That's illegal!" like it's a magic spell all you want, but Trump doesn't care what is legal. Either you go stop him, physically, or he will keep doing whatever he feels like.
Yet federal officers follow his orders. No one enforces the constitution, even if the courts back it up, and they will find a way not to.
So is anyone stopping him or are people just claiming that he can't do that while he's doing it.
So you look at Trump, his goons, his record and you say: "That good ol' piece of paper is going to defeat facism." ?
Every republican accusation has always been a confession. Their base will parrot whatever talking point they’re given with dead eyes
Historically every major piece of gun legislation has come from Republicans
One abiding characteristic of the right-wing personality is that when he is not dominating others, he feels persecuted. That explains LaPierre’s outbursts in the 1990s just as it explains the lies that Trump, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, et al., require to rationalize their abandonment of a conservative shibboleth now that they are in power.
They all live behind military walls is another abiding characteristic.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/03/jeanine-pirro-second-amendment-washington-00762347
It happened a few days ago and she walked the comments back within 24 hours, apparently.
John Commerford, executive director of the National Rifle Association’s legislative arm, said Pirro’s remarks “highlight the need for Congress to pass H.R. 38, the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.” That bill, introduced last year by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), would allow anyone with a state-issued concealed carry license to carry a firearm in any other state.
The cynic in me says it’s staged to drum up support for this deranged bill.
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