#well regulated militia

[trump666traitor]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[aunti-christ-ine]

[emperornorton47]

[bez2021]

[geezerwench]

[republikkkanorcs]

Almost no medical facilities in the area, and the few they have are small and insufficient. Most of those towns and counties have no law enforcement and have to rely on the state police. The Maine State Police are small and spread out, mainly stalking the highways looking for out of state plates to give speeding tickets to.

The poverty is off the charts but they all have huge arsenals of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

Nobody cares about gun violence anymore. We have been overwhelmed and desensitized by decades of the fire hose of misinformation the Republikkkans use 24/7/365.

[eagle-writes]

Rhada•manthos

@Rhadamanthos@mastodon.social

Katie: "l like my capitalism like I like my

militia: well regulated"

Jun 28, 2023 at 6:01:59 PM

Ink: Diamine Red Dragon

[danu2203]

GUNS KILL

[erin-hart]

[tempus-fuckit]

The Rittenhouse verdict carries an enormous part of the blame for these recent 'wrong place wrong time' shootings. These trigger-happy assholes now know that if you feel threatened, or can prove later that you felt threatened, it's blastin' time.

[jewish-sideblog]

I know for a fact that people are responding with orientalism, fetishization, and fandomization of the Israel / Palestine conflict. Because there is no way in hell that the American left would have responded the same way to October 7 happening in America.

Imagine if 364 people had been killed by AK assault rifles in a mass shooting at a music festival in America. I think the response from the American left would be much different. There would been have been universal condemnation and a push to dismantle and disarm the known hate group that planned and executed the shooting. There would have been common sense reforms planned to prevent the exact same thing from happening again.

But the mass shooting killed 364 Israelis, not 364 Americans. It was accompanied by 5000 rockets aimed at civilian targets, 775 other fatal shootings, and 247 instances of human trafficking across international borders. Torture. Mutilation. Sexual violence. Infants shot multiple times.

Somehow, that means the response from the American left has fully reversed. Many of them have, in essence, said that “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” They used the opportunity to glorify terrorists who mass-murdered civilians with the intent to commit genocide. Isn’t that what the American alt-right normally does in response to violence?

The necessary disclaimer here is that none of this should serve to justify the actions of the Israeli government. A military force that is typically known for having historically low rates of civilian death now has historically high rates— there is no excuse for that. The amount of sheer Israeli incompetence that allowed the attack to happen in the first place, and led such a disproportionate response, is nothing but a complete humanitarian failure of the Likud administration.

But I remember distinctly how many Americans glorified Hamas and called for the destruction of Jews in Israel on October 7th. During the terrorist attack. Before Israel’s military response. Clearly, no military response of any kind could have been justified by the people who usually beg for violent hate groups to get disarmed.

This is a kind of conflict many of them will never have to actually reconcile with, because the while the average American can access an automatic rifle, they can’t access a rocket launcher. Lacking insight into geopolitical history, the realities of warfare, and any actual ties to the real people being killed, they turned their slacktivism into a show. Hamas are Good Guys and Zionists are Bad Guys. And as long as it’s happening several thousand miles away, a Good Guy with a Gun becomes a perfect fantasy.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Like to knock that fucking ridiculous hat off his corrupt head.

[aunti-christ-ine]

[emperornorton47]

Let the whines begin

[geezerwench]

Well regulated