• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    If y’all didn’t figure that out in the first Trump Presidency, don’t know what to tell you. The largest gun buying demographic the past many years has been black, women and LGBT.

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      But can you use that gun and expect to remain free? The new environment appears to be a manifestation of that principle “… in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups whom the law binds, but does not protect.”

      As in: if you (justifiably) use that weapon in self-defense, will the US ‘justice’ system as it is today properly see it as self-defense, or railroad you into prison (or worse)?

      If I were in the USA today, that would be my very real fear. The courts are packed with ultra-conservative, Christian nationalists and there may be no protection for those who seek it there.

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        K, if you’re worried that the justice system will persecute you while being persecuted, then what does it matter? Are you hoping for someone else to save you while you’re being loaded into a cattle car?

        I bought a gun for the first time the day after the concession speech went out. The best time to plant a tree…