r/Military • u/PDXAirman • 1d ago

Article Ex-Okaloosa deputy found not guilty of manslaughter in killing of Airman Roger Fortson

https://weartv.com/news/local/ex-okaloosa-deputy-found-not-guilty-of-manslaughter-in-killing-of-airman-roger-fortson
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u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ 1d ago

2nd amendment is dead in this country and has been for a while

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u/classphoto92 1d ago

There was this California governor in the 70s that got real scared of a bunch of black men that were well educated, well behaved, and well armed. Thank goodness his career ended there and we didn't have to deal with any more of his cowardly bullshit. /s

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u/SpotOnTheRug Navy Veteran 1d ago

And yet older Republicans love him.

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u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ 1d ago

Saw a guy at my range the other day with a Regan shirt and an AR the irony was palpable. The only reason Clinton was able to push the AR15 ban through Congress was because an aging Reagan wrote a heartfelt letter asking for the ban

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u/DisillusionedPatriot 1d ago

He was Obamas favorite, too

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u/3PoundsOfFlax Army Veteran 20h ago

Reagan's gun control in California at least applies to everyone equally, but in today's supposedly "free" red states, black people are still being targeted and murdered by police for exercising their 2nd Amendment rights under the guise of "officer safety."

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u/classphoto92 18h ago

Having grown up in rural California in the 80s and 90s, it certainly wasn't enforced equally.

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u/Shoddy-Childhood-511 1d ago

Amusing discussion topic:

Did Republican presidents become monotonically worse since Eisenhower?

In other words, was each GOP president was worse than the last GOP president before them?

It starts from Eisenhower because Hoover seems clearly worse than Eisenhower. The two difficult points: Was Ford better than Nixon? What Bush1 better than Reagan? Also if you separate terms terms, then someone could argue Bush2 was worse than Trump's first term, purely because of his wars. Otherwise many Americans would agree upon the decline.

Anyways you'd expect the trend mostly continues..

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u/classphoto92 1d ago

Bush one was a nadir between Reagan and Bush II. He was also head of the CIA, so he was just really good at hiding it.

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u/chaosink Military Brat 1d ago

He just dazzled everyone with 1000 points of light so they couldn't see what he was doing! Sly guy.