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Protect Donald Trump

Vote for Harris to enact common sense gun regulations.

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Just gonna say it:

Donald trump is the single greatest argument for 2A rights we have ever seen.

Granted: We need at least some basic changes- universal background checks. waiting periods to let those happen. ban bump stocks. ban anything like bumpstocks.Trump being the best argument doesn’t change that we need basic reform, and we’ve needed it for decades.

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Why?? Every time someone uses political violence the would be dictator becomes more popular and he can make the state more repressive. Even right now, there will be idiot undecided voters that will change their vote to him because some idiot tried to kill him. There are really no upsides to attempting to remove tyrants with guns.

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Did you forget about the part where he started a fucking insurrection because he lost an election fair and square?

He’s basically the reason the 2A exists- to act as a final measure against assholes like trump from coming to power.

(In the modern era, it’s not a very good measure, don’t get me wrong. Dudes with rifles- even LMGs- aren’t going to hold out against dudes inside tanks and flying UCAVs dropping bombs… and I’m all for not-idiotic gun control. a firearm painted black is not “tactical”… or any more dangerous.)

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Meh.

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I’d love for you to be right but Id say any national gun reform will be crushed by the Supreme Court or a split senate.

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That’s probably true. But one of these decades maybe we can figure it out. Not because of Orange. Because of the school shootings. Maybe. Eventually.

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I hope Harris is elected and has the brass ovaries to pack the court and give Roberts the finger.

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