The number of preppers has doubled in size to about 20 million since 2017, due to more people or color and progressives joining the community, experts say.
Speaking as a former rural Republican gun-owner, I’m personally under the impression that if we get to the point where I need to use firearms to defend myself from right-wing extremists, well, we already lost the fight long before that point. I’d rather we all put our brains instead of bullets together and figure out how to defuse this situation before it spirals even further out of control.
There has been an active, concerted effort documented by ProPublica initially if I recall to foment a race war and muddy the waters of discourse. Interestingly, the right wants the left armed, because they’re (a) hoping for more leftist attacks, and (b) it will justify their own recruitment and escalation of force. Meanwhile gun lobbyists realize there’s an untapped market of people to sell to, so there has been a concerted astroturfing effort among leftist circles to promote firearm adoption, conveniently.
Besides, statistically, a firearm doesn’t make one safer. It actually adds a significant amount of risk in a variety of other aspects. If one is concerned about acute or long-term safety of themselves or their family, I think there are better ways to occupy time, money, and risk.
I didn’t mean to suggest you specifically did—just that this was the intention of far-right operatives;. I knew you were referring to defense, but I also made a point to disagree in that respect as well.
Just throwing this out there, no judge, but liberal and minority groups should safely use their second amendment rights too.
Of course with proper education, safety, and training.
Just saying the second amendment should not only functionally exist for one subset of the population, even in common discussion.
There are some cool empowerment and inclusion groups advocating this that have nothing to do with the NRA or anyone like that
I agree. Responsible gun ownership is for everyone and when done right it’s a lot of fun.
And even in right leaning circles only the fudds like the NRA.
Speaking as a former rural Republican gun-owner, I’m personally under the impression that if we get to the point where I need to use firearms to defend myself from right-wing extremists, well, we already lost the fight long before that point. I’d rather we all put our brains instead of bullets together and figure out how to defuse this situation before it spirals even further out of control.
There has been an active, concerted effort documented by ProPublica initially if I recall to foment a race war and muddy the waters of discourse. Interestingly, the right wants the left armed, because they’re (a) hoping for more leftist attacks, and (b) it will justify their own recruitment and escalation of force. Meanwhile gun lobbyists realize there’s an untapped market of people to sell to, so there has been a concerted astroturfing effort among leftist circles to promote firearm adoption, conveniently.
Besides, statistically, a firearm doesn’t make one safer. It actually adds a significant amount of risk in a variety of other aspects. If one is concerned about acute or long-term safety of themselves or their family, I think there are better ways to occupy time, money, and risk.
I didn’t argue for that or suggest violence as a motivator to be involved.
I didn’t mean to suggest you specifically did—just that this was the intention of far-right operatives;. I knew you were referring to defense, but I also made a point to disagree in that respect as well.