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I’d like to remind that News Max host that the city that convicted Donald Trump murders 400 people each year with guns.
Blue cities ain’t trying to pass gun regulations because they’re afraid of the idea of guns. They’re trying to pass gun laws because they have a fuck ton of guns.
Those aren’t fireworks we hear every night.
Conservatives underestimate how much firepower the left has - they just don’t advertise it like it’s their personality. Even strongholds like Texas actually have less guns per household than the national average.
There is a difference between owning guns and being an ammosexual. Let them continue not understanding that. Fine by me.
being an ammosexual.
Putting bullets in your butt does not make you a gun.
That 90% number is wishful thinking at best.
And so what if Cletus has a hundred guns. He's only got 2 hands and early onset diabetes. I like my chances.
Good point, I could easily out maneuver a mobility scooter.
Better watch out now, Rascal makes a turbo model that'll get up into the high teens. Strap a couple AK's to one of those and you have the next Tarantino movie.
That's a hilarious visual. A mounted gun where the basket should be
I mean they may own five hundred guns each but i feel like only the first couple of them actually matter. The rest are just for masturbation purposes.
Get in there and subpoena everyone. This judge, his daughter, everyone affiliated with anything ever, ever! I don’t care if we stop building bridges and highways and stop funding our government. You fight fire with fire. Otherwise, these Marxists are going to keep doing this.
You're advocating against the rule of law and making threatening remarks towards millions of Americans. Like a terrorist. That's what a terrorist does. Promote violence without technically saying you promote violence why don't you.
You have never met America.
Have you? You wish harm on your country and her people. For god sakes your lord and savior man didn't even win the popular vote when he was actually elected. What the hell are you smoking?
“And when he does, I’m gonna sit back, I’m gonna drink a beer, I’m gonna smoke a cigar the size of Cuba and laugh because they earned this one,” he stated.
Check where you're buying your cigs mate.
That’s cute. I know lots of democrats who love their guns just as much. The difference is we know when to use them and how to properly store them so our kids don’t get mad at their classmates and you know, make mistakes that cost themselves and their classmates the rest of their lives
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Stay mad and ignorant tho. It’s easier on the rest of us to deal with you when you’re blinded by rage and have had the only solid footing you have on this world knocked out beneath you.
Even if they do have 90% of the guns, they still only own about 30% of the trigger fingers. A guy with a garage full of guns can only shoot one at a time.
I was gonna say 2 guns, but how would they hold their beer?
Do the have a designated anti gun person to hold the beers?
Then who will they shoot at? Can't waste the beer by shooting the beer holder!
Don't forget they have to decide whether they hate Bud, Miller, or Coors Light this week.
Newsmax: Don't go into the cities! They're warzones and you'll get shot...
Also Newsmax: We have all the guns too!
These people are so detached from reality.
We have all the guns! We're on the edge!
Liberals are trying to bait us into violence.
Wat?
Let's take a step back from that provocation and look at the bigger picture.
I'm not saying succumb to bullies, but whatever you do, be smart about it.
If they don't like it, they can just leave. That's what they've been saying for decades, right?
Does he even know who the hell we are? I'm a new Yorker and I've seen through Trump's facade for decades. Why are people so devoted to this conman?
OOOHHH NOOO~! The man with 8 Rifles is after me when I only own 1 Rifle! /s
I hate that idiotic narrative they keep pushing.
You've got 90% of the guns? Correction..you have 90% of the civilian guns. The military, who work for the legal government have far more than you do, as well as drones, bombs and tanks. So fuck off with your "We have 90% of the guns" bullshit.
Never underestimate a military's capacity to support fascism.
Signed, the entirely of Latin America, whose military dictatorships the US funded.
Minority groups are among the fastest growing groups of overall gun owners, for reasons outlined here.
Some of these dudes have never been to Chicago and it shows
Yeah, it's funny because they're all scared to go to cities because of the crime stories they see on winger media like newsmax, but then they also turn around and say things like this.
Gun ownership by party:
48% of Republicans personally own a gun.
66% of Republicans live in a gun owning household.
20% and 31% on the Democratic side.
32% and 42% for Independents.
https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_affiliations_of_registered_voters
"number of registered voters by partisan affiliations in states that allow voters to register by party and report those totals publicly"
So only about 30 states + the US Virgin Islands, so these numbers will be low.
"45 million registered voters in these areas identified themselves as Democrats."
45 * .2 = 9,000,000 Democratic gun owners, and 13,950,000 Democrats living in gun owning households.
"35.7 million registered voters identified themselves as Republicans"
35.7 * .48 = 17,136,000 Republican gun owners and 23,562,000 Republicans living in gun owning households.
"32.5 million registered voters identified themselves as independents"
32.5 * .32 = 10,400,000 Independent gun owners and 13,650,000 Independents living in gun owning households.
Sup, dork - liberal with a bunch of guns here. I’ve been training since Duck Hunt and can shoot the cap off a trans label Budweiser from 100 yards with a .22.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking Trumpers have a monopoly on gun powder.
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As I've been saying, the people on the political left need to get strapped, they need to train, and they need to organize. Laws and cops aren't going to protect you, esp. when most cops are on the side of Trump. All of the laws trying to ban guns and prevent most citizens from owning them are going to do is make it ever easier for the boot of the authoritarians to crush you.
You need to take that power back, and remind the police that they only get to enforce laws by the consent of the people.
Who says they already aren't? We just don't make it our entire personality.
Oh I don’t have any guns I guess. They can come test this theory on me and my friends, they might be sad at the outcome, well for a couple seconds before they succumb to the darkness.
Newsmax: you city people better be scared because we have all the guns
Also Newsmax: Gun laws won't reduce gun violence, cities are full of guns!
These people are scared of fucking Seattle and Portland, they’ll fafo real quick if they try to roll into Atlanta, Memphis, or Chicago thinking they’ll be the most well armed
I'm really glad that the trump presidency woke up a bunch of my liberal/progressive friends, as for the longest time I was the only one with firearms. Now, it's like 85% who have firearms. I don't think the meal team 6 guys know the rest of us are packing a lot more heat now.
This disparity really does concern me. Non-MAGA people need to arm themselves. I know, I know. Guns are bad. But fascist tyranny is worse.
You would be surprised how many on the left own guns and know how to use them. Also, while military membership leans conservative, they do not tend to like Trump.
Big blue cities ain’t exactly running low on guns.
This is exactly what gun makers want.
This is not the solution.
Plus in the end, it's not about the quantity, but how you use them.
And we're not alone in this. There's the National Guard too.
Don't fall for the fear mongering.
Their "best" chance at doing anything of consequence was January 6 (in quotes because we know how that played out.) What makes you think this time around will be different?
Hey, hey. This comes from a place of fear and that's okay, but recognize it for what it is. Buying guns in fear is what gets people hurt. If you choose to buy a gun for the first time, take proficiency courses. Learn the legal responsibilities that come with it. If you're genuinely concerned, protect yourself in a responsible way. That may or may not be with a firearm. There are many ways to protect yourself. Take martial arts classes for instance.
This may seem like a wild suggestion, but try therapy. It did wonders for my anxiety. Seriously. I don't worry as much. I don't live in fear. I have friends ALL across the political spectrum. We get along fine. We treat each other with love and respect. The news and media drums up fear and excitement for attention. It's what sells ads.
They can only fire one at a time.
Just a reminder that the Nazi party regularly said shit like this leading up to the Holocaust. The idea was to make it seem like, to the public, that they have been regularly giving warnings to and negotiating with Jewish people about their need to relocate out of Germany and give up their property, and that the refusal to cooperate was going to force Germany to use violence.
It was all propaganda. The intent from the beginning was to commit violence.
All of the people Republicans are mad out right now - queer people, educators, health care professionals, and social workers to name a few - are all being given "warnings", with increasingly violent rhetoric attach, priming their base to eventually resort to violence when those targets "refuse to cooperate". Really what they mean is "Never do anything that disagrees with our far right agenda, or we will murder you".
The Fascists want a civil war. In their fantasy it plays out like The Purge where the big strong patriots destroy all the scary black bloc antifa terrorists and usher in a new era. The reality is that it would just result in a domestic crisis that on top of traumatizing the general public, would destabilize the country enough to permanently destroy our place in the world as a superpower.
This felon doesn't have any capacity for contrition. He genuinely believes he is above the law. It's unfathomable to him that he is being held to account.
There is no doubt in my mind that were he not a former president, a judge would lock him up. Contrition is an important component of the legal system. Felon's need to understand that their behavior is unacceptable.
I wonder if a judge could make him bend the knee. "Acknowledge your wrong doing and you don't need to go to jail."
