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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]
Beringia
(5,400 posts)64. Yes, knowing what we know, never bring a gun or anything else to throw at them
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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
23 hrs ago
#16
You're assuming they're that organized and that intelligent. Chances lean strongly towards no.
paleotn
22 hrs ago
#23
The only thing they can stop a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a camera
Seinan Sensei
22 hrs ago
#33
Yeah...but it takes nothing to "escalate" those fuckers. Look cross eyed at them and they
Bengus81
22 hrs ago
#40
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MayReasonRule
23 hrs ago
#18
And fail in their mission. It's is and always will be about public perception.
paleotn
22 hrs ago
#32
Then they'll claim that a protester being ONLY twenty five feet away was impeding an arrest
Bengus81
22 hrs ago
#41
The pigs fire all kinds of shit at protesters that aren't doing a goddamn thing.
Klarkashton
21 hrs ago
#52
Yes, knowing what we know, never bring a gun or anything else to throw at them
Beringia
16 hrs ago
#64
Don't RW nutriders open carry at their demonstrations? They truly are schizophrenic (in the split-mind sense) not an
artemisia1
23 hrs ago
#6
As I recall, guns were all over DC on Jan. 6, 2021, including the one that Ashley Babbitt
allegorical oracle
56 min ago
#74
Exactly. These mask-wearing imbeciles were protesting Covid-19 mask mandates and shutdowns.
sop
22 hrs ago
#35
Thank you. They tried to establish that yesterday and of course the media went right along.
underpants
21 hrs ago
#51
It's still within the 7 yr federal statute of limitations to charge him
ChicagoTeamster
15 hrs ago
#65
Apparently the moron MISSED the protest inside the Michigan Capital Building in 2020,
Jack Valentino
14 hrs ago
#68
The Republican double standard is too obvious to ignore. Legally armed Democrats will be killed.
Martin68
11 hrs ago
#72