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Way to many anti-gun people do not understand what you just said.
You nailed it though. Good to see someone else here on lemmy gets it.
From the Mulford Act to the flip MAGA made when condemning Alex Pretti for legally carrying the message is clear, rules for thee no me. You can already see it in how cops deal with an armed white man vs an armed black man, one if far more likely to be “talked down”, though in the past few years they have gotten pretty trigger happy with anyone. Gun violence is a problem in the US, but as we head into what’s looking to be elections gerrymandered to hell, Jim Crow tactics, voter intimidation, and probably blatant cheating, I see no reason to believe this regime is going anywhere any time soon. He’s not building a bunker for the security of future presidents, he’s not labeling his enemies as deranged, anti-fascist trans anarchists hellbent on destroying straight white Christian America, he’s telling us what his next target is. He’s always played with his cards showing, daring us to call him out for cheating and rigging the game. He told us what he was going to do to the immigrants, and by extension anybody of color regardless of citizenship, and he did. His goons murder and beat observers in the streets for recording them, or less, then get a million dollar crowdfunded bounty and transfer to another town on taxpayer dollars with the boon of qualified immunity. They control the courts, Congress has been neutered, law enforcement does not serve and protect the community, there’s no shortage of wannabe murderers seeking excuses to pick a fight and take the gamble they’ll be exonerated, and depending on where you live, they will.
And you know what, if I’m wrong and in the next couple of election cycles we vote MAGA out, fucking great!!! But Trump is always blunt about his plans and next he’s coming for his political enemies that aren’t as easily identified by the color of their skin or the sound of their accent.
Yep, and this is why I don't understand the Dems doing this shit. Like a large portion of your base is quietly getting armed. So parading around gun control is just political suicide right now.
I don’t get it either but chalk it up to sticking to traditional party rhetoric and policy making even as MAGA undermines every principle of democracy and the judicial system. I know I can come off as a doomer but the attitude out of some democrats that it’s still business as usual and that the pendulum will do like it’s always done and shift back in the next couple of elections seems dangerously naive. The governor mentions the move is for “the protection of our law enforcement officers”. Lady, if Trump demanded your arrest tomorrow those same cops would mask up, kick down your door, and haul you off without a warrant. I don’t think Democratic officials can protect themselves from the regime should it turn on them, much less their constituents. It’s been citizens who’ve fought ICE in the streets and pushed them out of neighborhoods, not their governors, and definitely not their local cops. For once I’m glad I live in a state where my strongly worded letters can be written in 30 rounds.