The NRA is frantically running the numbers to see what will increase public fear, and thus sales figures for the gun companies, the most.

“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence.

“Take the guns first, go through due process second,”

• Donald J Trump, Feb 28, 2018

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376097-trump-take-the-guns-first-go-through-due-process-second/

Quick question...

Did they take the gun from the 34x convicted felon?

In a twisted way, Trump is inadvertently trying hard to prove that more guns in the hands of untrained people with no background checks are a bad idea, something NRA was hoping to keep down. The cat is out of the bag now.

Anyway, fight girls.

Let me translate this:

You (the Outgroup, meaning leftists) can't have guns. If You (the Outgroup) does this, We (the ingroup, the right) will kill you. You have no rights, We have no restrictions.

Guys... what is happening to your country?

They want to deny you even the chance to die on your feet. How's all that owning the libs feel now, huh conservatives? You love it when your daddy treads on you to tread on the people you don't like. Every Republican voter is a traitor.

This is how the general public finds out that the NRA = Nationalist Racist Association

A federal agent did not kill a civilian. A Confederate soldier killed an American citizen.

I really think you all aren't properly focusing on the word "you" here. By "you" he means "not them"... So he essentially is saying "You libtards can't have guns, because us Maga-idiots will shoot you if you do".

So this seems relevant again

https://youtu.be/yJqfNroFp8U

If we hold ICE protests in schools every day then the feds will work to keep guns out of schools?

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

something something FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

It's a fun take, and Lemmy is a bit of an echo chamber, so let me enlighten you all on how that would kind of go:

The MAGA crowd is a combination of idiocy, brain damage, and then dark tetrad people.

They don't care if their cult leader is hypocritical, they'll defend everything he says, even if it hurts their own interests; they'll cherry pick, gaslight, and deny basic facts.

When you see them from a point of clinical detachment, their behavior makes a kind of twisted sense. The mistake is the assumption that they're just like you, and can be reasoned with or moved using empathy. Their worldview is fundamentally different, and typically only changes via direct experience: "leopards ate my face". Sometimes not even then.

It's downright infuriating at times because it reminds me of that antisemitism quote:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The stupidity of right wing people who aren't rich never ceases to amaze me.

And you’re still saying you don’t have a king ruling over you , America?

He really shit all over your second amendment rights there. Wiped his royal butt with it.

So MAGA, let's check the scoreboard:

• America First - yeah, NO.
• Release the Epstein Files - Who?
• Lower prices on day one - tariffs are more important
• 2A Champion - Only for who they choose.

So what are you still in for? The voracious Corruption? The Pedophilia? The virtuosic incompetence? The sending Americans to die in another endless foreign war to make oil companies wealthy? Paramilitary Death Squads having spontaneous firing squads in the streets?

This is what you voted for. Is this the free America you envisioned?

"Gun control" will continue to be a means of controlling undesirables while the fash base is still supported.

These current attacks are a good example. They're attacking protesters in non-fashy areas. They'll find similar ways of controlling guns for themselves.

Trump has been contentious among the pro gun crowd. He has supported red flag laws and instituted the bump stock ban. I don't think this is him being inconsistent.

Tomorrow the morons will be lining up to turn in their guns.

he’s gonna start missing having CNN and NBC News in the press pool if he keeps this up.

Cleaned my rifles over the weekend, they're cycling great now.

If I were a left leaning gun owner in the States, I would offer the same rhetoric the right has been spewing every time sensible gun control is attempted:

MOLON LABE.

always wanted a sniper rifle w/silencer. but cocaine is class x so m16 it is. qualified sharpshooter 👤

That guy really speak like that?