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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Lot of US leftists and liberals hate guns, as a reaction to the right’s obsession with them.

It is a stupid and dangerous reaction, because they give up their means of self-defense against far right militias and a fascist government.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I don't hate guns, I hate the "gun rights" movements and there fetishization of a skewed interpretation of the second amendment where any individual has the unalieanable right to own a gun.

    Even if a violent revolution were to happen, which odds are 99 to 1 it wont happen in the US in our lifetimes, then people like op hoarding guns aren't going to help. A well regulated militia might but that requires social organization and discipline, which most people in the gun rights movement don't have the time or willingness for.

    They aren't serious about using guns to defend liberty, they just like the aesthetic of it and make it part of there personality. So much so that they get offended by dumb and probably made up stories like this but not the countless other similar stories where there were no red flag laws and the gf gets killed.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Then they post about how the gun owners aren't doing anything to stop the fascist government. Yea, you've been alienating them for decades. They're not on your side.

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