It’s obv anti-constitutional, why trump bother to do something like this that will never work
That’s what happens before they get disappeared
And then they came for me
meanwhile a shooting is likely happening right now by cis white male shooter #408
I’m sure the 2nd amendment folks are making a big fuss about this, right? Right?!
Is that cognitive dissonance I smell?
They will treat Heller the same way they treated Roe.
Told you all over and over to arm up before it’s too late, hope at least some of you listened and not everyone was reflexively, performatively aghast at the idea of owning a tool of death.
The GOP really don’t want their fellow chasers to get popped in self-defense when the trans panic sets in.
They absolutely love the second amendment, except when people they don’t like use it. (Same with all the other amendments, and the Constitution in general.)
Spoiler alert: they hate the Constitution.
Yeah, it gives us too much freedom and them not enough to do whatever the hell they want.
If you’re trans, this is your signal to buy a gun ASAP.
I’m conflicted about this advice.
If we do end up in a civil war scenario, it’s important that gun ownership is not severely lopsided against vulnerable groups.
But in the meantime, gun ownership is a massive risk factor for suicide (attempts and fatalities), and trans folks are at a higher risk in the first place.
There won’t be a civil war. Americans won’t do shit.
I do agree that suicide is a risk, and that guns increase the risk by making it very easy, 100%. I’m not gunna choose a side for you either, it’s a hard one.
I do want to note two things though. It doesn’t need to be a full blown civil war for them to start abusing and arresting trans people, and many trans suicides are caused by transphobia, both from other citizens and from government policy.
I taught self defense to families for many years, I always encouraged learning about and owning firearms as first-line items of defense because all the eye-gouging and groin-kicks in the world won’t help if someone enters your home with a gun.
I am not a gun-nut. I believe we need stricter laws and required training to own the things, but that isn’t going to happen so the least you can do is make sure you’re not the one without a force multiplier.
I have recently been telling trans people very bluntly and directly that they need to arm up. I get a lot of pushback, a lot of it is very “online” in nature and performative, and a lot of trans girls have a hard time reconciling it with their ideas of femininity, but I am telling you all now, they may come for you. You are literally in danger in the USA. Maybe not now, but very possibly in the near future.
The only thing that will keep a fascist administration from going door-to-door to black-bag undesirables is if every home visit is a potential stand-off and bloodbath. Yes, it may come to that. It’s sad and shitty that they have put you in this position, but you have to become part of the meat-grinder, not a name that disappears off lists and census surveys.
Please, please, please keep saying this to anyone who will listen.
At a gun show or other private seller.
I really hate the term gun show loophole
Maybe the situation and laws are different in other parts of the country, but at every gun show I’ve ever been to all of those people with stands set up selling guns are dealers, so to buy a gun through them you have to go through all the legal hoops as if you were buying from a regular gun store.
I suppose there’s a lot of randos wandering around there who own guns who might be convinced to do a private sale, but that doesn’t really have anything to do with them being at a gun show except it’s a convenient networking opportunity. You could just as easily hang around outside of a shooting range trying to find a private seller.
Yep. Never seen a private transfer at a gun show. LOL, I would never try to buy a gun at one! Everything is overpriced and the background check always seem to take forever.
Through any means is fine
As long as once you have it you don’t give it up
If you get it from a gun store the feds have a record of it, though. Makes it easier for them to make a target list.
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Blacks, women and LGBT have been the largest gun buying demographic since Trump 1.0.
Yeah, no. This is how you get people to start buying guns in masse AND shooting at any cop that rings their door.
Stop! I can only get so erect.
Cool. Please waste your time with this. It won’t succeed and it will take away from other damaging things they can do.
Well if we are able to get out of this shitshow and get competent people in charge again maybe we can use whatever loophole they use for this to enact some actual gun regulations.
Sorry, you see Harris loved the genocide so much she had to be defeated, meaning that trump is dictator for life, at least until they do some paperwork so Peter Theil can be dictator for life. Also the genocide got much worse and there’s no sign of it stopping which probably wasn’t Harris’ plan but we’ll never know.
And anyway the whole thing’s moot - by the time the midterms roll around in just about a year, we’ll have some other GRU talking point seeded around the interwebs to divide the left.
Using actual bigotry to get what you want politically is bad regardless of how “good” your political objective is.
Meanwhile, and I note this as a veteran of the Iraq war myself, 28.5% of mass shooters had a military background, but they’re not coming after veterans for THEIR guns.
Or, you know, white disenfranchised boys? Not that they are all killers, but most mass shooters do come from that group
why bother? can’t afford guns if they just leave veterans to die after discharge
Well yeah, they have guns and know how to use them.
Also the army can be sort of traumatizing for some reason. And the healthcare when they get back isn’t . . great.
And they’re making it worse. Because remember the republican party fucking hates Vetran’s even if they say otherwise.
only 7.4% of americans serve in the military. while i know that’s not how statistics work, it seems to be a significant marker. like, i know more than a few former marines who like to talk about luring people onto gold mines because they think then it’s somehow legal to murder them.
Can you explain the gold mine “logic”? Ive never heard that one
From my understanding, gold mines (doesn’t even have to be a mine, just a gold claim of any type) have certain legal exemptions for trespassing from the olden days. At least in most areas that I’m aware of. It’s basically the Castle Doctrine but can be applied if it seems like another person is even attempting to visit your claim. Not much room for concerns of “what happened?” when the only question that needs answered is “were they there?”
Oh it being antiquated law makes a ton of sense for the sov cit idiocy
i honestly think they just think if they’re underground no one will hear the shot and the legality has something to do with mining law. it’s sovcit bullshit.
Well you see I impaled them with a flag that has gold frill, so its actually under maritime law and since you arent a boat you cant arrest me, officer. 🤡
I didn’t murder them, I unlifed them officer. that’s accredited. you’re accredited to unlife people in gold mines yes sir. I’m not in trouble a little bit. i’m bona fide.
