▲ 78 ▼ Trump administration goes after Second Amendment rights in justifying Minneapolis shooting (www.nbcnews.com) submitted 9 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/usa@lemmy.ml 9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 9 months ago (1 child) Maga is extremely divided on this, from what I'm seeing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago They're not homogeneous, for sure. Many of them support killing liberal gun owners because they're liberals, white men included. The ones who don't, though, specifically only oppose this because he's a white man. The Republicans that are pushing back on his killing would be silent if Pretti was a Black man, or a Somali refugee, or trans, or anything else other than a white man. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago They're not homogeneous, for sure. Many of them support killing liberal gun owners because they're liberals, white men included. The ones who don't, though, specifically only oppose this because he's a white man. The Republicans that are pushing back on his killing would be silent if Pretti was a Black man, or a Somali refugee, or trans, or anything else other than a white man. permalink fedilink source parent