• Formfiller@lemmy.world
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    Every republican accusation has always been a confession. Their base will parrot whatever talking point they’re given with dead eyes

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    The US Attorney basically said no gun carry in Washington DC.

    TLDR-

    This syndrome reached an apotheosis of sorts when Jeanine Pirro, best known as a reality TV judge and right-wing blowhard, and now (because of course!) appointed by Trump as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, issued this edict: if anyone brings “a gun into the District, you mark my words, you’re going to jail. I don’t care if you have a license in another district and I don’t care if you’re a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else.”

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      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.

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      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.

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        The issue is that the dems won’t drop their gun control rhetoric, even with a huge portion of their base becoming armed and fascist literally killing people. I don’t give a shit that Harris own or fired a gun. I give a shit that they’ve not woken up to the realization that gun owners aren’t just maga chodes larping as nazis. They need to drop the anti-gun shit and actually focus on what needs to be done to correct our move towards full blown dictatorship.

        I’ve said it a million times. Dems would sweep elections and destroy the GOP if they dropped their anti-2a bullshit.

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          What dem has come out and said they want to take away 2a? The vast majority of dem proposed gun regulations are not anti 2a. Gun regulation isn’t anti 2a

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          Isn’t the reason the 2a is so sacred is to be a check on the kind of authoritarian take over already in progress ? All those school kids were murdered so that access to firearms could continue to be unhindered so something could be done to correct your move towards full blown dictatorship?

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            The fascist are the ones who are heavily armed. On top of that, we’re not at the start a civil war yet. We’re at the ballot box right now, midterms will determine if we move to the next box.

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              Project 2025 creator or whoever said the second civil war we’ll be blooess if the left allows it. And so far he seems correct.

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              Fascism can’t be voted out anymore than it was voted in. Continued support for the parties that have enabled it will allow it to continue growing. .

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          Their goal has never been to win against Republicans but act as a buffer between the working class and the ruling class, acting in the interests of the ruling class

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          Who are you going to shoot to bring our democracy back, Rambo?

          The 2nd should be repealed. Kids getting murdered in school isn’t a fair price to pay so that gun fetishists can indulge their fantasies.

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            And this is the exact shit I’m talking about. Your whataboutism doesn’t negate anything I’m saying. It just furthers people who are single issue voters into the hands of the maga chodes because they’re saying “no we’re not going to take the guns” while you spout shit like “repeal the 2nd”.

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              What’s the point of having the 2nd amendment if it leads to kids being killed, but it’s not used to stop the fascists taking over the country?

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    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/03/jeanine-pirro-second-amendment-washington-00762347

    It happened a few days ago and she walked the comments back within 24 hours, apparently.

    John Commerford, executive director of the National Rifle Association’s legislative arm, said Pirro’s remarks “highlight the need for Congress to pass H.R. 38, the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.” 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.

    The cynic in me says it’s staged to drum up support for this deranged bill.

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

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      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.

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    One abiding characteristic of the right-wing personality is that when he is not dominating others, he feels persecuted. That explains LaPierre’s outbursts in the 1990s just as it explains the lies that Trump, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, et al., require to rationalize their abandonment of a conservative shibboleth now that they are in power.

    They all live behind military walls is another abiding characteristic.

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        HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

        GTFO with that religious bullshit.

        “rights” are an imaginary vapid concept invented by hairless apes. and if you want to maintain your “rights” then you better get the fuck up and do something about it before the powers that be strip them all away.

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        But that is exactly what rights are. Given to people by government and they can be taken away.

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          You are mistaken, that is not what rights are or what the constitution says (“God-given, inalienable rights”).

          If you let the government take them, that’s on you, but I guess it depends on how far the individual is willing to go in order to protect said rights.

          If the government does something that is contrary to your rights, that’s them violating the rights, but they do not have the ability to rob you of your free will: You choose your actions, words, and what you are or are not willing to risk sacrificing to foil attempts to curtail those rights.