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The majority of guns are owned by white heterosexual male Christian Republicans. What's the group that the fascists haven't been targeting again?
The thing about guns is that they have caused incredible harm, and a lot of people have looked at the statistics and realized that gun ownership makes their family less-safe. So most gun ownership is related to irrational fear or a heritage of gun culture. I'm in the latter group myself, and own dozens of firearms, but I've never been under the illusion that my gun ownership made me safer on average.
But these are not normal times, and I fear that many minorities and those on the political left may realize too late that guns can suddenly stop being evil when they become necessary. And I absolutely believe they'll be cracking down on gun ownership. If trans gun ownership isn't banned in a year I'll be shocked.
And I won't be surprised in the least if NICS checks for registered Democrats start getting funky. I don't think Patel's FBI will be dumb enough to deny all Democrats, but it would be very easy for them to put a delay flag on a check.
Under a delay the full check is pending and the firearm can't be sold for 3 days, after which it can proceed so long as a deny hasn't been returned. But most major retailers won't transfer on a delay until a proceed comes back, which can take as long as 6 weeks.
And since NICS checks are only valid for 30 days from the date the check begins, a delay that is returned as a proceed after 6 weeks isn't valid and can't be used to sell a firearm. But since it's a proceed there's no grounds to challenge it.
Not entirely true. Huge numbers of leftists own guns, it's mostly liberals/centrist that drank the gun prohibition koolaid. Look what it's got them? Cause it'll never happen here, remember? Oh, whoops. I see people realizing their mistake most quickly with black people; black panthers and other community defense groups in black neighborhoods have been making a come back. Pray more people get on the band wagon. And if you can't legally own guns, there are alternatives. Crossbows, compound bows, muzzle loaders. Being armed in some way is the best way to keep your communities safe from outside violence.
That is the most
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thing ever, wondering how the "Only cops and military should have access to modern weaponry in a CiViLiZeD sOciEtY" crowd feels right about now, watching helplessly as cops and (para)military run around jackbooting any Americans they want with impunity then memeing about it on Xitter.Also a lot of right wingers have way too many guns, and not in a oh it's a collection sort of way but in a why do you have 4 AR15s in 5.56 sort of way. It's not like they can use them all simultaneously so why have more than one standard rifle? Regardless my solution to getting a gun in the case of random violence is to find a Maga flag and wait until I see them with one, then I'm smacking them with a shovel, axe, or crowbar and jacking the firearm. Worst case scenario I get killed boohoo.