• PoliticalAgitator
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    1 year ago

    The guys in white robes bought a gun just as easily and they’re thrilled to hear you’re armed because it’s all the excuse they need to execute you in the street.

    Because they won’t actually be wearing white robes. They’ll just look like any other generic white American male, and they’re going to kill you long before you find out their political opinions.

    You’ve sold your minority group out to the gun lobby and now you’re doing their astro-turfing for free.

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      And you think that me not having a gun would have prevented them from killing me? If yes, in what way?

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        You don’t just support but advocate laws that arm those men in white robes.

        You escalate the problem for everyone else and then have the gall to jump online and tell people its cool, because you’ve got your gun to keep you safe.

        You’re not a hero. You’re the reason black children get shot in the face for ringing doorbells.

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          No. Black children get shot in the face for ringing door bells because of right-wing fear mongering and deeply entrenched bigotry that exists whether or not minorities arm themselves. You can make the case that bi_tux isn’t making anything better and is possibly making it worse but saying they are the cause is a disgusting lie that takes the blame off those that truly deserve it.

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            No. Black children get shot in the face for ringing door bells because of right-wing fear mongering and deeply entrenched bigotry that exists whether or not minorities arm themselves. You can make the case that bi_tux isn’t making anything better and is possibly making it worse but saying they are the cause is a disgusting lie that takes the blame off those that truly deserve it.

            So you openly admit that some people are incapable of controlling their emotions and that they can be manipulated into murdering vulnerable people including children… But they still get your big rubber stamp of approval to buy all the semi-automatic weapons they want?

            If you’re disgusted by the idea of “taking the blame off those that truly deserve it”, then your own behaviour should sicken you.

            Most gun owners just try and pretend that responsibility begins and ends with the shooter and that their own words, actions and votes had nothing to do with it. You however, just lean right into open hypocrisy.

            You’ve got no problem casting the blame wider. Your post opened with the idea that it was “right-wing fear mongering” to blame for gun violence against minorities. Fox News to blame? Completely reasonable!

            But blaming the “responsible gun owners” whose unsecured firearms arm thousands of criminals and suicidal teenagers? A gun-lobby that doubled their donations to Republicans to $16 million a year following Sandy Hook? People spreading bullshit hero fantasies online?

            That’s apparently disgusting.

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              You made up a lot of stuff there. You are grasping because you don’t want to own your shameful behavior. Base your comments on what I actually said and on reality.

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                I based my comment on exactly what you said. I’m not going to fall for your awkward emotional manipulation, so save it for your family.

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                  No you made up my big rubber stamp and all that. You tried to lay the blame for black children being shot in the face on minorities having guns. You can bring up whatever other topics you want but it doesn’t change that you said something really shitty and that I called you on it. Anything else is your addition and distraction.

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                    No you made up my big rubber stamp and all that.

                    Well don’t be coy big boy! Tell us what guns you own, who you vote for, what gun control policies you support and how they would reduce the insane, normalised gun violence in America.

                    You tried to lay the blame for black children being shot in the face on minorities having guns.

                    Love the fan remix of my posts but unfortunately the things I actually said are all still there for people to read.

                    I made it completely clear that I oppose private gun ownership in its current form for all Americans, including the old white racist who shot a black child in the face.

                    If you want to play that deeply stupid game, I’m happy to join in. For example, your comment didn’t explicitly blame the shooter, only “right wing fear mongering”, so I’m going to wildly extrapolate that you think the shooter was the real victim. What a terrible person you are for saying that!

                    But personally, I don’t need to awkwardly fabricate a villain because I have actual villains to work with.

                    So, what I did say is that racists love an excuse to kill minorities and those minorities having guns is the only one they’ll ever need. Do you want to argue this doesn’t ever happen? Because that’s going to be a hard sell.

                    But we could lower the bar further for you if you’d like. Do you want to argue that America is a safer place for minorities than comparable countries, because of widespread, permissive gun ownership?

                    I’m going to guess you don’t actually want to engage in any of those topics though, you just want to keep manipulating people.

                    Because none of your pro-gun promises have come true.

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                    You supporting gun ownership means you support it for the people who want minorities murdered. You’re supporting things that make your life more dangerous, not less.

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      The flipside of that argument is folks who wear pointy white caps on weekends really don’t like when minorities also have rights to gun access and it makes them squirm a little. A lot of racist people are all bark and no bite and just like to put on a tough guy persona (but of course there’s a lot of racist people who will kill someone if given the opportunity)

      As long as there’s as many weapons in this country as there are, I think it’s more important to breed a culture of gun safety before gun restrictions ever have a chance of taking hold

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        The flipside of that argument is folks who wear pointy white caps on weekends really don’t like when minorities also have rights to gun access and it makes them squirm a little

        A left-wing, pro-gun fantasy instead of a right-wing, pro-gun fantasy but a fantasy nevertheless.

        Racists today are feeling more emboldened than they have for 40 years and minorities are no safer.

        The guns did nothing and the promises were just hollow propaganda designed to sell guns to both racists and people scared of armed racists.