This meme assumes liberals, or the left broadly construed, view guns in the same way.
Conservatives want to bring their AR-15 into Burger King, because they view guns as a sort of magic totem of protection.
Of the left gun owners I know, liberals, Anarchists, Marxists, etc. They have a far more grounded view of guns, and see them much more for the tool that they are.
I don’t know. MAGA Marty is probably not to worried about a tyrannical government kicking in their door.
I didnt think feeling safe was why liberals where buying guns. I thought it was to make oppressors and aggressors feel less safe.
Guns are literally an oppressive force. The second amendment people are ready to kill those who try to stop ICE or change the government in a way they don’t like. Their threat is literally murder, but sure more guns will solve this problem.
There is a highly performative and cynical segment of the left who occupy large parts of Lemmy and I love that this post is getting the amount of pushback that it is.
We are NOT in the same timeline we were a few years ago, the world is changing rapidly, and we need to change with it to survive.
Purchasing a firearm is one thing, but if you fail to practice consistently, you will fuck up.
I wonder how many government agencies mine threads like this
I hope all of them, so they see that the overwhelming leftist/progressive response to a naive meme is pushing back and everyone uniting behind the idea that forcefully removing opposition will be a house-to-house bloodbath as we all have our guns pointed at the door. I will get on the roof with a sign for their fukkin satellites to see.
Did I end up tankie lemmy again? How does that keep happening?
Tankies aren’t in favor of arming up seriously. One of them will buy an old Mosin Nagant and bring it to their clubhouse where they’re all wearing their favorite jumpsuits and red-star hats and they will all “ooh” and “aahh” at it and then they will march around while the anthem plays.
The real world requires far more serious consideration for contingencies.
Read the meme and re-read your comment.
I have no idea if you’re referring to the meme or the massive pushback against it, considering it’s a day old.
You buy guns to feel safe.
I buy guns to feel dangerous.
We are not the same.
Firearm sales in USA have TRIPLED since 2000
Every state is involved in their production, even Hawaii; according to the gun makers, anyway. Way more than most people realize.
https://www.nssf.org/government-relations/impact/
foreign military sales have quintupled or so since 2000, depending on who you want to use as a source.
Last time I checked, US has as much military spending as the top 10 spenders combined, including China and Russia. Sources disagree somewhat depending on what you consider to be military spending.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/largest-defense-budgets-in-the-world/
Chances are very good the USA arms your country; we do make the very best in weapons, since we have been at war since 1911
The USA has been smuggling weapons since the Brown Bess rifle
You think we weren’t at war in 1910? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Border_War
yeah its amazing to me that the country with more guns than people is as of late surging to get more guns. the craziest part is, its really hard to blame the leftists for this conclusion, given the context.
The thing is, the guns are largely concentrated in the hands of people that make the left feel unsafe - and recent events have caused the left to feel even less safe about the situation. Now the liberals are arming up to balance out the equation a bit, and that’s driving a big part of the surge.
How does this meme have so many upvotes while every response to it is in opposition of it?
Propaganda posts have backings
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered. Any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
Liberals never want leftists owning guns cause when liberals send Pinkertons to murder us they don’t want us fighting back.
Saying “liberals” is incorrect. NEO-liberal is the correct word. Liberal progressives/socialists are not the same thing.
You sound like a liberal wanting rights nshit
This is the stupidest comment I’ve seen on here in a while, and there’s a lot of dumb stuff on here.
Tell that to the miners Baldwin-Felts shot
Yeah, that was in the 1890s…last time that was a problem was 1937.
The event I was referencing was 1921, and the last time a picketer was shot was 2023, but whatever I guess…
Why look at recent history when you can make declarations about how this is all ancient history
Yeah because we don’t have unions or labor movements anymore. Thanks libtards.
Conservatives want guns to protect themselves from a bunch of DEI boogymen that don’t exist. The left is buying guns to protect themselves from the boogymen that are currently publicly stripping away/violating their rights while doing multiple genocides.
Trying to act like the two groups are the same makes you either a boldfaced liar or an idiot. But hey, at least you get to be smugly superior with your snappy little meme.
Get to feel smugly superior. Because they certainly aren’t.
I don’t think ‘feeling safe’ is the goal so much as the understanding that the Nazis are making a huge comeback, and that votes and protest signs don’t generally do a great job of killing Nazis.
Like, if you’re going down anyway, might as well bag a few Nazis on your way out; or maybe you see some Nazis harrassing someone and you’re a safe distance away with a rifle.
So… you could be part of solving a gigantic problem, but it will 100% not make you safe. To the contrary, it’ll make you a target.
Well history says the states started to have more gun laws after the black panthers, so maybe this is the way to get gun control in pacific non violent way.
