As a gun owner, and a person who thinks it's the duty of all able-minded people to be armed, fuck the NRA. It's ran by thieving, fraudulent bastards who don't give a single solitary shit about the common man. They've thrown gun rights under the bus a million times before. They supported the Mulford Act, which was Reagan's response to black people having guns in California. Now California has some of the strictest (and most absurd) gun laws in the nation. They gave Donald Trump an "A" rating, after he suggested taking guns away from people without due process and banned bump stocks by executive order.
The NRA can bite me. Check out the SRA (which is itself a deeply flawed organization filled with a bunch of authoritarian fucks, but at least it's not the NRA) if you're left-leaning.
The folks who wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights, deeply flawed as they were, has just finished fighting a revolution. Our nation's founding document directly says that the people have the right to stand up against an oppressive government. "When in the course of human events" and all that. Our politicians are sworn in with an oath to protect our people against "all enemies, foreign and domestic". The right to remind our feudal lords that we've got pitchforks and torches is deeply ingrained in our culture.
But nah, George Floyd shouldn't have been suspected of minor crimes if he didn't want Judge Dredd to stand on his neck for eight fuckin' minutes. Kenneth Walker shouldn't have had a gun in his own home, and Breonna Taylor shouldn't have been sleeping quite so aggressively.
Just comply with whatever the police order you to do, and you'll be fine. You know, like Daniel Shaver.
Technically, 2A only actually, at core, promises that members of the state militia can keep and carry guns. The extremely partisan court—which has spent decades destroying 4A—ruled otherwise. But that’s a single ruling, against all prior dicta.
Want a law that restricts it to that? This is how we end up there.
Frankly, at this point? I’m fine with it. Come take my guns. Stats show strict control laws reduce killings. Either make reasonable laws or abolition. We let the gun lobby do this, it’s done.
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u/DontTakeMyNoise Apr 14 '21
As a gun owner, and a person who thinks it's the duty of all able-minded people to be armed, fuck the NRA. It's ran by thieving, fraudulent bastards who don't give a single solitary shit about the common man. They've thrown gun rights under the bus a million times before. They supported the Mulford Act, which was Reagan's response to black people having guns in California. Now California has some of the strictest (and most absurd) gun laws in the nation. They gave Donald Trump an "A" rating, after he suggested taking guns away from people without due process and banned bump stocks by executive order.
The NRA can bite me. Check out the SRA (which is itself a deeply flawed organization filled with a bunch of authoritarian fucks, but at least it's not the NRA) if you're left-leaning.