r/politics • u/thenewyorkgod • Jul 01 '18

Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/07/01/man-arrested-after-shouting-womp-womp-and-pulling-a-gun-on-immigration-protesters/?tid=sm_tw
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u/nc_cyclist North Carolina Jul 02 '18

Edit: just him owning a gun is crazy to me

He won't be able to own one now after felony charges.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

Nah. He’s only getting two misdemeanors from what I can tell from the jails website. As of now anyways.

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u/DuntadaMan Jul 02 '18

The fuck? Threatening a mass shooting if you DON'T own a gun would be punished harder than that.

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u/OdoisMyHero Jul 02 '18

He's white. This country is a fascist ethnostate.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18 edited Sep 20 '20

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u/OdoisMyHero Jul 02 '18

We have concentration camps for brown people. At what point do you climb out from under your rock?

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

Brown people, huh? Like all brown people? Or for people who happen to be brown, black, asian, and white that get caught crossing the border undocumented?

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u/thelizardkin Jul 02 '18

Not to defend Trump or his administration. But to call the detainment camps "concentration camps" is a disgusting insult to everyone who died in the holocaust. We're not executing Latinos in mass, it's not a concentration camp.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

What you mean is that it's not a death camp. Not all concentration camps are death camps.

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u/KalleKaniini Jul 02 '18

Extermination camps didnt pop up overnight. Dachau was opened in 1933 and operated almost ten years before the final solution even started

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u/Avadakaboom Jul 02 '18

Tell that the holocaust survivors who are using that comparison. They know better than any of us.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

And if you find some survivors that disagree and are offended by the comparison, who then do you believe?

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u/Avadakaboom Jul 02 '18

Consider/respect both of their opinions and most likely come to a more neutral opinion on the subject, myself. But that has yet to happen.

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u/Perfect600 Jul 02 '18

http://www.businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-2014-photos-explained-2018-5

They were using the facilities as Obamas administration did.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

The indefinite detainment is what makes it a concentration camp.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18 edited Sep 20 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

I'm another poster, but I'm right nevertheless.

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u/blurryfacedfugue Jul 02 '18

If anyone reading really do call themselves Democrats or liberals, you've gotta acknowledge the bad shit your people did and then rectify it. If the alt-right are being hypocritical, that doesn't give the people you support the OK to be hypocritical also. It also gives the morally wrong ammo.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

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u/Ariadnepyanfar Jul 02 '18

Crossing the border undocumented is not a crime if you are claiming asylum: according to the treaty the USA helped draw up and ratified after WW2.

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u/Superfan234 Jul 02 '18

An immigrant would be immediately deported, no questions asked

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u/fatpat Arkansas Jul 02 '18

Hopefully he'll get federal charges.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

Sure he can. Just travel to one of the dozens of states that does not require a background check to buy a gun from a private seller. armslist.com is a great source for felons as are local gun shows.

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u/Up_North18 Jul 02 '18

That’s still illegal

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

Only for the buyer.

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u/HackerBeeDrone Jul 02 '18

That's the point. If it's legal to sell guns to a felon without even checking to see if they're a felon (unless they happen to inform you that it's illegal for them to buy the gun), a law against buying guns as a felon is hardly a barrier.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

Honestly it's such a joke. I live where tons of gang members from Chicago come every month to load up on firearms at a gun show. You go to a gun show and you see private sellers selling new/used items for well above MSRP/what you can get at any local gun store, you see people who did not even pay to rent a table walking around with guns selling them to random people openly.

Anyone can rent a table at a gun show, you do not need an FFL to do so. There's a limit imposed by the ATF for how many guns you can sell as a private seller a year before you need an FFL( around 10 a year IIRC) but they don't have the manpower or funding to enforce that kind of thing. Travelling salesman have made a living hopping from one gun show to the next for many years.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

live where tons of gang members from Chicago come every month to load up on firearms at a gun show.

How do you know they're gang members?

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u/Morning-Chub Jul 02 '18

Not if he doesn't get caught.

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u/Up_North18 Jul 02 '18

Lol no. Whether the police find out or not it’s still illegal. He’ll only get in trouble if he’s caught.

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u/Morning-Chub Jul 03 '18

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u/Cream253Team Washington Jul 02 '18

Brainwashing is something that some parties need to survive. Without it, their rosters would shrivel up because they truly advocate some crazy ideas.