RE: The School Shooting in Minneapolis (and the Issue of Gun-Control in the US)
August 28, 2025 at 10:24 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2025 at 10:25 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 28, 2025 at 9:41 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: They don't care about that right either. The organizing principle behind their performative support of gun rights is the implicit threat of gun violence from activated partisans.
When they criminalize opposition politics, there'll be a frenzy of perfectly legal gun confiscations.
Agreed. The 2A support we see from the Reich Wing politicians is not really about caring for the right to own, itself, but to cotton on a largish voting bloc that just like all us others would rather vote than fight.
You and I had a longish discussion about ten years ago regarding insurrection in America based on 2A rights and gun-owners taking up arms against the government. I think it's fair to say that both of us had a misplaced premise (at least one!) because we both were assuming that these gun-owners would actually fight to defend rights.
It's plain nowadays that they won't fight for anything, and you're right, when they come to take away guns, these "patriots" and "defenders" will mostly turn them in and get the latest Nintendo platform. That's how much they care about rights, somewhere below CoD19 or whatever.
