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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

White supremacist organizations like the NRA are constantly working to impose tyranny.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

NRA obviously isn't going to help us, but your local Socialist Rifle Association would be more amenable to resisting tyranny. If there is no chapter in your area get some like minded friends together and start one.

Edit: How could I forget your local John Brown Gun Club, good number of chapters around the country and they will be comrades.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

SRA is pretty explicit about not being a "militia" of any kind. Good place to meet cool people, but they won't be resisting under the SRA banner. John Brown Gun Club on the other hand is a little less timid about showing up to protect people.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

Thanks for mentioning them, my thoughts were apparently not fully engaged yet when I posted, and originally said 'Socialist Rifle Club', my brain combined them into one

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They won't do that. Every time some fucking pig uses their horse to step on a protestor they nut.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons

Throughout the late 1960s, the militant Black nationalist group used their understanding of the finer details of California’s gun laws to underscore their political statements about the subjugation of African-Americans. In 1967, 30 members of the Black Panthers protested on the steps of the California statehouse armed with .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns and .45-caliber pistols and announced, “The time has come for Black people to arm themselves.”

The display so frightened politicians—including California governor Ronald Reagan—that it helped to pass the Mulford Act, a state bill prohibiting the open carry of loaded firearms, along with an addendum prohibiting loaded firearms in the state Capitol. The 1967 bill took California down the path to having some of the strictest gun laws in America and helped jumpstart a surge of national gun control restrictions.

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In contrast to the NRA’s rigid opposition to gun control in today’s America, the organization fought alongside the government for stricter gun regulations in the 1960s. This was part of an effort to keep guns out of the hands of African-Americans as racial tensions in the nation grew. The NRA felt especially threatened by the Black Panthers, whose well-photographed carrying of weapons in public spaces was entirely legal in the state of California, where they were based.

[–] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

NRA seems like a bunch of sniveling, boot-licking, white nationalist fascists IMO

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Yep. That's what they are.

[–] x0x7@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

This is why most gun owners prefer GOA. NRA just inserts itself as the face of gun owners, doesn't actually represent us. GOA is actually libertarian, is for armed citizens not militarized cops. Stays in its lane with politics. Doesn't go out of its way to get bad PR with left.

Thinking gun owners like the NRA is about on the same level as thinking we shoot clips. They are the AARP of guns. They exist only to collect money from idiots.

[–] metoosalem@feddit.org 110 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 day ago (12 children)

The same reason ruzzians don’t.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Well, aktuly...

They did. They were just bad at it.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've said this before on Lemmy and got down voted, but this is accurate. When it comes to current willingness to fight for our rights, Americans are Russians, not the French.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

There just aren't any serious leftist movements. Tankies are passionate and as much overlap as you might have they won't want to pull in the same direction for one reason or another. Texas has possibly more left leaning people, but they will never show up, nor make their own party to spoil the vote (still worth doing to shift the overton window back).

Its a shame really.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's almost as if it was all bullshit to get you to donate to a organization specifically designed to enrich its officers and gun manufacturers.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago

That's wildly underselling it. The financial aspect is almost anecdotal. The 2nd amendment movement has only ever served one purpose above everything else: Arm white people to manage, deter, and even lynch black people, as well as to prepare for the eventual transition to fascism.

This is part of why the Great American Project was doomed to degenerate into fascism long decades Maga was a thing. Wildly racist violent thugs were given the sociopolitical power to establish this whole charade about "resisting tyranny" when it was only ever about minorities. Always. Even supposed liberals bought into this lie, eternal shame upon these useful idiots. Yet every time since the American Civil War where black people started actually organizing and exercising their 2A right ended with those rights gutted or those communities actually being fucking bombed. That should have been pretty telling. But Americans collectively kept up the repeatedly disproven pretense that this was about "fundamental rights".

Anyway if you can't tell recent events have got me pretty fired up about the innumerable ways in which american self-mythology has only ever served fascist agendas.

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Read this as "Cmon do a racist tyranny" at first. Like, damn thats pretty mask off, and hello welcome to the last decade...

But yeah, "resist" works too.

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[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can’t expect the brown shirts to resist their own guy.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry they only fight against improving the lives of people not actual tyranny

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[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago

Oh they will rise up, but it will be on the side of tyranny.

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