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F is for Fascism (Ferguson MO)

other than a few times shooting shotguns, I haven't shot guns much as an adult

the Christian sports camp I went to in Western NC had shooting as one the available "majors" which I did one year -- we were shooting handguns, which is pretty nuts for an inexperienced 10 year old looking back on it


the obscene prevalence of guns makes the police problem so much more complicated
 
Yet police are pro-gun. It’s not complicated. Policing and pro-gun are about enforcing race and class stratification based on hypermasculine norms.
 
PhDeac said:
Yet police are pro-gun. It’s not complicated. Policing and pro-gun are about enforcing race and class stratification based on hypermasculine norms.
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Which is funny because its scientifically proven that all "gun nuts" suffer from low-T and have baby dicks.
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
other than a few times shooting shotguns, I haven't shot guns much as an adult

the Christian sports camp I went to in Western NC had shooting as one the available "majors" which I did one year -- we were shooting handguns, which is pretty nuts for an inexperienced 10 year old looking back on it


the obscene prevalence of guns makes the police problem so much more complicated
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my dad was a gun guy, and a staunch Dem. I started shooting .22s at Camp Morehead when I was about 6 or 7, and then with him through teens. He had every caliber handgun and long gun and would sit around up at Trivette's Sporting goods in Winston and trade guns and talk about guns and whatever. After I grew up never had any interest but kept the long guns and a Boer War .45 pistol when he died, called the police and gave them a couple of semi-auto pistols he had. Cop was dumbfounded I wasn't going to sell them or something but I told him I didn't want them ending up in the wrong hands. Im sure he just took them home, but at the time I was going though all my dad's shit and handling the Will etc and was too emotionally wrapped up in his death to deal with the fucking guns. Later gave the long guns and the .45 to a friend and don't miss them at all.
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
other than a few times shooting shotguns, I haven't shot guns much as an adult

the Christian sports camp I went to in Western NC had shooting as one the available "majors" which I did one year -- we were shooting handguns, which is pretty nuts for an inexperienced 10 year old looking back on it

Rise and shine and give god the glory, glory
the obscene prevalence of guns makes the police problem so much more complicated
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Celebrating Jesus by shooting 357s and being terrified of an ex pitcher nailing you with a dodgeball.
 
I am a gun owner (four) and do enjoy the sport of shooting (skeet and accuracy), but don't hunt...I just couldn't get into it and everything it entails. I am also OK with eliminating automatic weapons from general population. I think it is a Pandora's box that requires stringent regulation, training and accountability that will never be achieved in current day America. As I have mentioned before, the idea that people need guns on them at all times is asinine, IMO, outside of working in agriculture or the like where you have to protect livestock from predators or euthanizing injured animals (that cannot be treated).

As we have seen, Americans are not really smart enough to use/own guns with the respect they deserve. Background checks, entered into a database, required training and retraining at certain time intervals...I don't think that is too much to ask for people to use/own a deadly weapon. We do that to drive, for the same purpose.
 
There’s a fair amount of liberals in DSA that are pro-gun control, but then you have the opposite end of the spectrum. There are groups like John Brown Gun Club, Redneck Revolt, Socialist Rifle Association. I don’t like guns and got rid of the one handgun I had in my house, but I don’t think gun control through criminalizing gun ownership is the answer.
 
We need more gun accountability. You should need to show your skills and accountability to earn the right to own a gun and be held accountable for the guns you own. That’s how we get from a gun nut culture to a gun owner culture.
 
mako1331 said:
You obviously don't live in a rural area.

How many posters own guns? And how many?

I don't really like guns, don't hunt, and I still have 4. A couple pistols that were left to me, a bolt action Ruger 308 that I use for coyotes, and a Remington 870 tack shotgun that my wife thinks will protect us in the insignificant chance of a home invasion. I'd be very, very glad to get rid of all of them if it meant that guns were harder to access in our country.
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Yes, we are surrounded by guns here in rural Florida. Every day one or more of my neighbors has target practice in their backyards. In June the house down the street from me had an AR-15 party, several friends came over and the shot machine guns all afternoon.

I have zero guns, 1) because my daughter has bipolar and self harm is too great a risk, 2) I will never catch up to my neighbors so my only hope is to remain friendly and hope that they don't come kill us and take our land when society collapses.
 
PhDeac said:
We need more gun accountability. You should need to show your skills and accountability to earn the right to own a gun and be held accountable for the guns you own. That’s how we get from a gun nut culture to a gun owner culture.
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nah

we need to get rid of a lot of guns, especially handguns, semi- and fully-automatic weapons, and all other military-grade weapons for both police and the general population
 
Oh no doubt about that. Once we get down to the reasonable guns random schmoes should be able to have, then we focus on accountability.
 
BillBrasky said:
The thing is that we don't have to repeal the 2nd amendment, we can just roll it back to its original intention and allow anyone to own non-automatic weapons. Because that's all they had back in the 1780's.

Or we could get super constructionist and force anybody who owns a weapon to be a member of a "well regulated militia". Meaning you have to report to state militia meeting every month or two, take gun safety classes, and be screened for mental health. If you refuse to join the "well regulated militia" then you lose the right to bear arms.
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All in on this. Give everyone in ‘merica a musket —there’s your arms — and tell them to stfu. Seems highly unlikely to me that the founders could even begin to imagine a world where an individual would own weapons that could mow down the continental army.
 
Police arrest 24, including Kentucky State Rep. Attica Scott, during Louisville protests Thursday

Scott and her daughter, Ashanti, were charged with first-degree rioting, a Class D felony, failure to disperse and unlawful assembly, according to LMPD.

LMPD is accusing Scott of being part of a group that caused damage at multiple locations, including setting fire to the main library branch. A WDRB News crew covering the protest saw one individual smash a library window and throw a flare inside the building. Protesters walking nearby condemned the individual's actions.
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Shameka Parrish-Wright, co-chair of the Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, was arrested alongside Scott, according to her attorney, Ted Shouse, who told WDRB News that "it appears LMPD is targeting protest organizers."

Parrish-Wright, the operations manager of The Bail Project Louisville, also faces charges of first-degree rioting, failure to disperse and unlawful assembly, according to LMPD.

"This arrest and these charges are outrageous," Shouse said in a statement. "Shameka Parrish-Wright is a pillar of this community. She was arrested alongside a sitting member of our legislature for exercising her First Amendment rights."

Protesters gathered on church property after the church's pastor, the Rev. Lori Kyle, said church officials "advertised" it as a safe space to demonstrators during the city's 9 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. curfew, which Mayor Greg Fischer extended through Monday morning.
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Scott's Breonna's Law is named for Taylor, a Black woman who was shot and killed by LMPD officers who were serving a search warrant at her apartment on March 13 as part of a narcotics investigation.
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