Hey yall the current insanity has finally pushed me into a place where I want to purchase a rife for self defense. Do any of you have access to a good guide on purchasing as well as any advice on finding a good firearms safety course/instruction?

EDIT: Wow! Thanks for the responses yall! A handgun wouldnt be ideal for a lot of reasons, and I wouldnt plan on carrying it around on my person anyway; I have pepper spray for that. I also dont plan on using it like in a home intruder situation, I mostly just want to be prepared if things really start to go sideways. I dont want to be the queer who is lead away to the camps without a fight, plus I have greatly enjoyed target shoting the few times I have done it. Mostly I am just looking for advice on what type of rife I should get and what is an affordable way to get it, I dont want to be taken advantage of.

    • footfaults [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      The idea that I have been kicking around, is that most leftist organizations are just social clubs that people want to hang out in. Even the SRA, ostensibly with a straight forward mission statement, has basically failed the mission it set out to do. Because it's not really tied to people's day to day issues. Shooting guns is a hobby, and that means that anyone can believe anything they like, and it doesn't matter. Everyone's entitled to their own opinions about what the org needs to do.

      Real leftist organizing is based on material interests. The people organizing unions in Starbucks and Amazon? They have real concrete goals that actually matter. The union wants to make working conditions better for its members. They organize in order to achieve that goal. Ideally, anything that doesn't help achieve that objective is not something the org is going to spend time on. Really, if you're trying to get your hourly wage to be a minimum of $15, there's no space for people to just go after each other about pointless ideological bickering.