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In reply to the discussion: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple." [View all]70sEraVet
(5,311 posts)36. NRA talking out of both sides of its mouth
From "....politicians like Tim Walz has incited violence...", to "we urge the political voices to lower the temperature..."
Urging the lowering of temperatures while pouring the gasoline.
Screw them. They have been making their money by scaring white people with the prophecy of a race war.
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"You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple." [View all]
MayReasonRule
Yesterday
OP
I'm going to wait for the NRA's statement defending Pretti's unequivocal 2A rights.
CincyDem
Yesterday
#3
Excellent questions. How did the one agent know to look for the gun? Why did he immediately
Gaugamela
Yesterday
#16
You're assuming they're that organized and that intelligent. Chances lean strongly towards no.
paleotn
Yesterday
#23
The only thing they can stop a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a camera
Seinan Sensei
Yesterday
#33
Yeah...but it takes nothing to "escalate" those fuckers. Look cross eyed at them and they
Bengus81
Yesterday
#40
Historically, Strategic Surreptitious Strike Strategies Play A Major Role Against Overwhelming Force
MayReasonRule
Yesterday
#18
And fail in their mission. It's is and always will be about public perception.
paleotn
Yesterday
#32
Then they'll claim that a protester being ONLY twenty five feet away was impeding an arrest
Bengus81
Yesterday
#41
The pigs fire all kinds of shit at protesters that aren't doing a goddamn thing.
Klarkashton
Yesterday
#52
Yes, knowing what we know, never bring a gun or anything else to throw at them
Beringia
22 hrs ago
#64
Don't RW nutriders open carry at their demonstrations? They truly are schizophrenic (in the split-mind sense) not an
artemisia1
Yesterday
#6
As I recall, guns were all over DC on Jan. 6, 2021, including the one that Ashley Babbitt
allegorical oracle
7 hrs ago
#74
Exactly. These mask-wearing imbeciles were protesting Covid-19 mask mandates and shutdowns.
sop
Yesterday
#35
Thank you. They tried to establish that yesterday and of course the media went right along.
underpants
Yesterday
#51
It's still within the 7 yr federal statute of limitations to charge him
ChicagoTeamster
22 hrs ago
#65
Apparently the moron MISSED the protest inside the Michigan Capital Building in 2020,
Jack Valentino
21 hrs ago
#68
The Republican double standard is too obvious to ignore. Legally armed Democrats will be killed.
Martin68
17 hrs ago
#72