That article was so long to bury that.

I thought that was hilarious given that she is known to carry and be proficient with a pistol, and Trump has never held a gun in his life.

I'm pro 2A and a lot of my 2A buddies knew damn well Harris wasn't coming after our guns because she was just going to continue what Biden was doing which was pretty much nothing.

Trump on the other hand has repeatedly lied about his stance on 2A, moved to ban accessories and certain firearms and at one point the ATF had the longest wait times under his first admin. The wait times are nearly non-existent but there are some who argue that is thanks to Biden.

And for those who claim that the "Gun Personality" people voted for Trump, I can tell you from first hand experience those gun nuts did not vote for Trump. It was the faux 2A who go to the range for a photoshoot and buy the Gucci gear who voted for Trump.

And without fail, every accusation continues to be an admission

Before was Biden then Obama. Almost like gun lobbyist created panic to sell more guns.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Dems campaigned on restricting gun ownership broadly.

Republicans campaigned on restricting civil liberties for liberals specifically.

I fully agree with your father and I've been saying the same thing since the 2001 Patriot Act and when the Orange Kool-Aid guzzlers won in 2016. Those fucks will eventually abolish 2A for the full power grab.

Oh, dear. I hope you're no longer like that.

That bill, introduced last year by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), would allow anyone with a state-issued concealed carry license to carry a firearm in any other state.

While I think laws on concealed carry being more consistent across states would be a good thing, this is a terrible idea. Laws across states aren't consistent--one state may require some sort of education, for example, while another does not. The one that requires education obviously shouldn't be recognizing a CCL from a state that doesn't.

What about states rights? What a bunch of bullshit politics have become.

It's 100% weapon's grade clickbait.

Of course it is. News hasn't EVER been able to make headlines not be over the top, all the way back to the days of the Gutenberg printing press

I kind of agree. The headline makes it sound like the second ammendment has formally been abolished. In reality, it's just being ignored. If ICE can kill people for carrying guns, then in practice the second ammendment might as well be abolished

Yes he does, because you're not fucking doing anything about it. You can say "That's illegal!" like it's a magic spell all you want, but Trump doesn't care what is legal. Either you go stop him, physically, or he will keep doing whatever he feels like.

Yet federal officers follow his orders. No one enforces the constitution, even if the courts back it up, and they will find a way not to.

So is anyone stopping him or are people just claiming that he can't do that while he's doing it.

So you look at Trump, his goons, his record and you say: "That good ol' piece of paper is going to defeat facism." ?

At the executive level, he gets to decide how the federal policing departments interpret statute and execute their department objectives.

In the modern era, that means taking a reading of "gun possession" as "physical threat to police" and permitting the police to respond to anyone they think might be carrying with lethal force. That's not a repeal of the 2nd amendment in a literal sense. But it does make open carrying extremely dangerous in practice.

Of course, this isn't news to everyone.

Being a Black gun owner in the US comes with a unique set of challenges. The Second Amendment is often not applied to Black gun owners in the same way it is applied to white gun owners. Lawfully armed Black people are often viewed as a threat and met with police violence, in part because of implicit bias that law enforcement is not immune to.

Philando Castille was a registered gun owner in St. Paul, Minnesota, who was shot and killed by police in front of his girlfriend and her daughter, after disclosing that he was armed. Alton Sterling, who was killed by police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was legally armed at the time of his death. Black Americans are disproportionately murdered or injured by police and Black gun owners describe being stereotyped and misperceived by law enforcement.

What we have is a white population that's catching up to the treatment enjoyed by minorities for decades.

Here in Canada we have three major parties and a few minor ones. A decade or more ago ago our three major parties could be described as progressive, centerist, and conservative. These days they can be referree to as progressive, conservative/center-right, and far-right.

How many people do you suppose switched from the Conservitives to the Liberals, from the originally conservative to the now conservative/center-right, in more recent years as the parties changed their alignment and began representing different people? Next to fucking no one. Most originally Conservative voters, if they genuinely believed in what they were saying, should be voting Liberal right now as that party now aligns with their supposed views more closely. Liberals, likewise, only care about voting for the party that puts itself between the two options on either side, calling anyone to the right or left “extreme” or “idealists” no matter what their positions actually are and so it’s difficult to get them to actually make real change.

The moral of this story is that MAGA voters are voting based on following their tribe around and they are completely locked into branding and stereotypes. They believe anything they’re told because they want to align themselves with an image, not vote for a representative. The more this shit goes on the more I think the world needs to ban the idea of political parties so that voters have to actually listen to the campaign promises of candidates.

Spot on! Add Racism to your list.

Wrong, we all do. All you have to do is go make the purchase and be armed.

Expect selective enforcement or even some kind of DHS/ICE reserve officer program as an excuse to keep MAGA voters armed.

The rights are inalienable, not a special privilege granted by a government.