![]() ![]() I think that, while uncomfortable for them, it was helpful. I don't get the learned personal helplessness. So when I asked them why they weren't selling and moving to Canada or China or whatever, why they weren't stockpiling food, water, and weapons, why they weren't acting right the fck now* to protect their children and themselves against the wars and death and rape and firebombs to come. So I asked them point blank (heh see what I did there?) "Do you really think that is what's going to happen?" Post election many of my friends were having actual panic attacks over the human hellscape about to be unleashed on them. Salon: Gun control’s racist reality: The liberal argument against giving police more power NY Magazine: There Is No ‘Epidemic of Mass School Shootings’ The New York Times: The Assault Weapons Myth 538 on Americans misunderstanding gun violence and policy solutions The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights National African-American Gun Association This does not mean "classical liberal" or right-leaning libertarians. ![]() Those who would identify as Democrats, Progressives, Socialists, &c. "Liberal" here is "left-of-center", in US political terms. This is a place for liberal gun-owners who want to discuss gun ownership absent the "noise" of most right-leaning pro-gun forums. Gun ownership through a pro-gun liberal lens. ![]()
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