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    2 days ago

    yeah its amazing to me that the country with more guns than people is as of late surging to get more guns. the craziest part is, its really hard to blame the leftists for this conclusion, given the context.

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      1 day ago

      The thing is, the guns are largely concentrated in the hands of people that make the left feel unsafe - and recent events have caused the left to feel even less safe about the situation. Now the liberals are arming up to balance out the equation a bit, and that’s driving a big part of the surge.

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        22 hours ago

        thats basically how i understand it, yes.

        i dont feel comfortable conflating leftism with liberalism, but thats another can of semantic worms.

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          11 hours ago

          Yeah, sorry - I spent too many years hearing the right complain about libruls as if the term encompassed everything to their left, and I still haven’t completely untangled that knot in my brain.