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Let's watch how hard gun control gets pushed when the barrels are aimed at the puppet masters.
Fellow lefties: If it's safe for you to do so, acquire, train, and responsibly store. That is all.
Let's watch just how nice conservatives are to their reps when someone puts gun control on them.
I've kinda always wanted to see it.
I mean, someone literally drove up to one of their softball games and tried to kill them all, and they still didn't support gun control. It won't be until the majority of their billionaire oligarchics tell them it's OK that they'll start supporting it.
That guy failed. It makes a big difference when they actually get killed.
Sure, Congress will act, but the Supreme Court has spent the last 15 years making sure that even the most moderate, milquetoast gun reforms get struck down. I know the current Justices are hypocrites that make a mockery of precedent, but considering they're the ones that created the precedent (particularly Alito, Roberts, and Thomas), it's going to be hard for Congress to write a gun control law that doesn't force several Justices to either strike it down or invalidated their own opinions.
A constitutional amendment isn't impossible, but I think the NRA would still have enough juice to prevent Congress from reaching a two-thirds consensus, and definitely enough to stop three-quarters of states from ratifying it. The billionaire class has spent a lot of money making gun control extremely difficult, and I think that's about to bite them in the ass.
The only way they'll get rid of most of the guns is by searching property to property. Many won't comply with unconstitutional bans. And they don't have the agreement to change the constitution about this. Too fucking bad, the working class will remain armed. I wish ammo hadn't gotten so expensive though.
You're right, unwarranted doorkicking for unconstitutional search and seizure is very unlikely, thankfully.
I think dem-liberals have basically just used gun reform as a contrast to separate them from their opposition, but it's had the side effect of giving many working class folks the false sense that the State is responsible for protecting them. The fringe-right neighbor-hating hyper-individualists have co-opted almost the entire narrative around the 2A conversation, and it sucks.
Years of history of armed labor unions and working class heroes unremembered, the fruit of their sacrifice handed over willingly by ignorant descendants. It's tragic.
I used to be a lot more of a gun nut when I was younger. Now, I see them as an unfortunate necessity in an embattled, dark world, and nothing more.
Yes! Every time I start to think "Hey maybe I should stock up a little..."
There go the friggin' preppers using their midlife crisis money to clear out the shelves of anything but the most obscure cartridges.