:LIB: the article is probably not as bad as the title but their copywriter just lost them an rss subscription

  • HeckHound [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Disagree. They aren’t inherently attached to either, they just currently support them because they defend the hierarchy they love more than anything.

    They’ll ban guns in a heartbeat if they think they’re more of a liability than an asset, just look at Reagan and the Mulford Act. And they’ll turn on the police as soon as it’s convient, just like they did at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      The country has become significantly more deranged since Reagan and his Mulford act, back then the right-wing may have tolerated limited gun control targeted at Black orgs, but now with the number of guns in the country having quintupled to 400 million and the explosion of right-wing militias since Obama and Trump, the feds are not gonna risk weekly Ruby Ridges and Wacos just for the sake of liberal gun angst