Political Memes

Hey all I am saying is hand a gun to one side in this image and one of them is trigger happy versus the other.

Reading these comments it seems like most of the anti gun crowd thinks pro gun is about machismo at the cost of tragedy. It's mainly about protection of the people from the government. It's the last failsafe to keeping free in the case of tyranny. We all agree there needs to be better regulation because in the past and currently the laws are designed over feelings and not facts, for example barrel length restrictions or pistol grips that mainly only effects the ergonomics.

Also, how come when people argue about like, gun related shenaniganery, they always talk about like, oh, well, if the government comes and hits you with a drone strike, then, you'll be fucked. I mean, no shit sherlock.

For one, that'd be fucking nuts, I think that'd probably make it on the nightly news and probably the president would undergo serious investigation and maybe get impeached.

For two, I think probably you are more likely to use a gun to walk around and not get fucking killed by the police when you decide to protest outside of a courthouse, or walk around your community to make sure the cops don't harass people or shoot people without being beholden the the community which they are also supposedly serving. Especially if there's more than one of you, if there's only one of you and the cops come around and have no idea who you are and you're waving a gun around, then you're probably gonna get the police called on you, and you will probably maybe get shot. Black panthers did it, anywho, and they were cool, so that's really all I'm saying.

For three, how does this like, insane civil war scenario come about? How come that's the main default scenario everyone's heads go to whenever this shit comes up? That's insane. You're telling me that the military, a military made up of like, a bunch of dudes who mostly just wanted free college as far as I can ascertain, you're telling me that they'd just like go and unflinchingly steamroll the normal citizenry and become part of a fascist dictatorship? That also strikes me as kind of nuts. You might not be wrong, but it does strike me as kind of nut,s and probably like they would have a huge discipline problem considering the amount of the military which has like pretty radically different political views. You'd probably have to see the centrist liberal types, the monoculture, slide way harder to the right, by which I mean, a couple inches. I find it more likely that, as we saw with BLM, if the US was to undergo civil unrest, it would probably be confined to a couple discrete locations and probably it wouldn't be that well organized, both in execution or opposition. Probably also you'd just see an embrace of guerilla tactics, and, I mean, we've seen the modern military's track record as far as that goes.

So, I dunno. Seems like a pretty stupid conversation to me. Someone hit me with the self-defense thing too so I can argue about how that's really stupid and self-defense is stupid and dumb

That just means you're reasonable. So yeah, both parties aren't big fans of that.

Centre right - like Sanders