White supremacist organizations like the NRA are constantly working to impose tyranny.
NRA obviously isn’t going to help us, but your local Socialist Rifle Association would be more amenable to resisting tyranny. If there is no chapter in your area get some like minded friends together and start one.
Edit: How could I forget your local John Brown Gun Club, good number of chapters around the country and they will be comrades.
SRA is pretty explicit about not being a “militia” of any kind. Good place to meet cool people, but they won’t be resisting under the SRA banner. John Brown Gun Club on the other hand is a little less timid about showing up to protect people.
They won’t do that. Every time some fucking pig uses their horse to step on a protestor they nut.
The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons
Throughout the late 1960s, the militant Black nationalist group used their understanding of the finer details of California’s gun laws to underscore their political statements about the subjugation of African-Americans. In 1967, 30 members of the Black Panthers protested on the steps of the California statehouse armed with .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns and .45-caliber pistols and announced, “The time has come for Black people to arm themselves.”
The display so frightened politicians—including California governor Ronald Reagan—that it helped to pass the Mulford Act, a state bill prohibiting the open carry of loaded firearms, along with an addendum prohibiting loaded firearms in the state Capitol. The 1967 bill took California down the path to having some of the strictest gun laws in America and helped jumpstart a surge of national gun control restrictions.
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In contrast to the NRA’s rigid opposition to gun control in today’s America, the organization fought alongside the government for stricter gun regulations in the 1960s. This was part of an effort to keep guns out of the hands of African-Americans as racial tensions in the nation grew. The NRA felt especially threatened by the Black Panthers, whose well-photographed carrying of weapons in public spaces was entirely legal in the state of California, where they were based.
NRA seems like a bunch of sniveling, boot-licking, white nationalist fascists IMO
Yep. That’s what they are.
This is why most gun owners prefer GOA. NRA just inserts itself as the face of gun owners, doesn’t actually represent us. GOA is actually libertarian, is for armed citizens not militarized cops. Stays in its lane with politics. Doesn’t go out of its way to get bad PR with left.
Thinking gun owners like the NRA is about on the same level as thinking we shoot clips. They are the AARP of guns. They exist only to collect money from idiots.
Might have better luck with the Marine Corps than the NRA. Either way, it won’t be an organizational/top-down thing.
The marines were just deployed domestically (blatantly unconstitutional) and they complied with the unlawful order. They are part of the fascist insurrection.
Military coups happen, that’s why Trump replaced all the generals that might stand against him
How often are those military coups AGAINST the fascists? Hell a lot of those military coups were backed by our military/intelligence agencies. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the US military to be the bastion against tyranny.
Bet they were salivating at shooting illegals while violating the constitution.
Should’ve packed them in like sardines with no food or water. They went there with the intent to murder.
I mean, you’re right, but it’s because of their demographics and proximity to the situation that I said what I said.
Few NRA members will be in any position to intervene or see the reality first-hand. Meanwhile, Marines have seen their spouses and other relatives deported in recent months. Trump was an idiot to deploy them like so, as opposed just about any other branch of the active-duty military.
Marines have seen their spouses and other relatives deported in recent months. Trump was an idiot to deploy them like so, as opposed just about any other branch of the active-duty military.
I take it Marines are especially likely to have family or spouses that are here illegally, for some reason?
1 in five are Hispanic(tbh, I did think it was more), but there was a noteworthy case in the news a while back about a spouse flying into Hawaii and getting deported to Australia. On that note, military members serve overseas a lot, and often marry locals, so the ethnicity stats don’t tell the whole story.
Read this as “Cmon do a racist tyranny” at first. Like, damn thats pretty mask off, and hello welcome to the last decade…
But yeah, “resist” works too.
And I read this as “Cmon do a racist [T slur]” , to which I say no thank you. I don’t find racists attractive tyvm.
What is a t slur?
You’re allowed to write it out as long as you don’t direct it at someone.
Oh they will rise up, but it will be on the side of tyranny.
You can’t expect the brown shirts to resist their own guy.
Democrat-voting socialist here, this argument is fucking stupid because nothing is stopping the Left from also buying guns and doing what this post is implying. Y’all just want an easy target to hate and impotently complain online about, when you could also go buy a gun, organize, and stop tyranny yourself.
Fuck Trump fuck Republicans, but also fuck Democrats, including you the person reading this, for being associated with gun fearing pussies who want other people to do the hard work for you.
They’re literally just pointing out the hypocrisy and lies of the organization but okay
I’m not kink shaming, but isn’t it dangerous to fuck yourself with your gun, buddy? Be safe!
It’s not dangerous if you insert using the correct type of gun lube and not have a round in the chamber, if you know what i mean 🚬🥸
“Including you the person reading this”.
We don’t all live in the US you know…
What other countries have the NRA, dipshit?
It’s almost as if it was all bullshit to get you to donate to a organization specifically designed to enrich its officers and gun manufacturers.
That’s wildly underselling it. The financial aspect is almost anecdotal. The 2nd amendment movement has only ever served one purpose above everything else: Arm white people to manage, deter, and even lynch black people, as well as to prepare for the eventual transition to fascism.
This is part of why the Great American Project was doomed to degenerate into fascism long decades Maga was a thing. Wildly racist violent thugs were given the sociopolitical power to establish this whole charade about “resisting tyranny” when it was only ever about minorities. Always. Even supposed liberals bought into this lie, eternal shame upon these useful idiots. Yet every time since the American Civil War where black people started actually organizing and exercising their 2A right ended with those rights gutted or those communities actually being fucking bombed. That should have been pretty telling. But Americans collectively kept up the repeatedly disproven pretense that this was about “fundamental rights”.
Anyway if you can’t tell recent events have got me pretty fired up about the innumerable ways in which american self-mythology has only ever served fascist agendas.
The same reason ruzzians don’t.
I’ve said this before on Lemmy and got down voted, but this is accurate. When it comes to current willingness to fight for our rights, Americans are Russians, not the French.
Incorrect. Americans do not revolt because we are fat and not uncomfortable enough. Russians do not revolt because they are drunk and numb…because they are drunk.
because they are drunk and numb…because they are drunk.
Who upvotes this lib racism?
ICE is raiding the places with the strictest gun laws. Plenty of Hispanics here in the South, don’t see them fucking with Georgia.
Blue states. They’re raiding blue states and ignoring red states.
And your point? One of these things is just like the other.
CA and NYC seem to be top of the news and they clearly have the toughest gun laws. NYC may as well be in another country and CA is pretty ridiculous.
Are you suggesting they’re afraid of gun owners firing on ICE to protect their undocumented neighbors? Or that the people they’re detaining may defend themselves with force, even though undocumented immigrants can’t purchase or possess firearms in red OR blue states?
They’re afraid of agitating their voters and losing votes. Guns have nothing to do with it.
Ever notice the fascists don’t show when guns are around? This whole site was screaming with joy, and I along with them, when armed people showed out to protect drag queens reading at libraries.
ICE is raiding all over the country. Take a look at San Antonio, for example. The Trump Admin is loudest though about blue states, and you seem to be easily swayed by propaganda, so makes sense all you can hear is what Trump talks about
First off, go fuck yourself with all that. You will not paint me with your MAGA paintbrush.
I can’t even argue this shit with someone who clearly isn’t watching the news.
“Nuh uh! I have a couple of tiny exceptions that prove I’m right!”
