Paywalled, sorry. Can’t read it.

He may have cheated to win the last election and he’s at least somewhat likely to run a third time and cheat to win that too.

I don’t really give a fuck about your nuanced opinion on how things were before vs. now.

Imagine voting for a child-raping conman racist. Then realize that supposedly enough people did that to elect their false idol.

We’re SOL.

Yeah that ship sailed long ago. I sure wish there was a better party to vote for in opposition of the fascists currently in power.

I blame the left for not being more violent. It’s led us to where we are.

Just yesterday I was driving home and passed a bunch of people with signs - “down with fascism!” and “No Kings!” and while I agree, I couldn’t help but think of how they’ve managed to pass gun ban after gun ban and restrictions on top of restrictions in my state.

“We won’t accept a dictator!” (Actual sign, last one I could see as I drove by) <- motherfuckers, exactly how do you plan on not accepting him? He runs the media, the election board, has his own gestapo, and all you’ve managed to do is disarm honest people.

I’d sincerely love to be wrong but as far as I can tell we’ve lost, the nation is simply fucking evil now and won’t be going back.

You (my fellow Democrats collectively) motherfuckers do nearly nothing but decry the second amendment, shitting all over the “shall not be infringed” part every chance you get.

It’s far too fucking late now. If almost all Americans were armed, it would be different. We aren’t and it’s not. I’m not gonna run out and die to make a point for the rest of you who were too fucking good to deal with the danger and expense of firearm ownership.

That’s because a bunch of smug assholes are super anti-gun.

I vote Democrat, and I’m armed.

Most who vote Democrat aren’t, and one dude just doesn’t make a difference that often, regardless of recent events.

It’s pretty much too fucking late.

The second amendment does in fact reinforce the first amendment, but too many of you shat on the second amendment for too long and allowed your rights to be taken away.

“Have the day you voted for” indeed. That pithy phrase cuts both ways.

The government doesn’t like anonymity: can’t have you getting away with being glad pieces of shit like Charlie are no longer around. Jahvol!

Megacorps don’t like competition OR anonymity: easier to sell your data for more money when it’s higher quality.

Bonus they get to pretend like they’re saving children from seeing titties or whatever. Much like gun laws, it won’t do shit except fuck over honest people.

What are those bayonets affixed to?

My fellow Democrats mostly want us all disarmed. That needs to change.

We’ve (collectively) voted Nazis into being in charge…

If you think they’re going to let us vote them out again, I don’t know what to tell you. They for sure won’t. There’s a decent chance Trump cheated his way into office this time as it is.

The second amendment was our final check and/or balance. It seems insane to oppose it in the face of fascism.

Why would you want to be disarmed when Nazis are running the country, AND HOW IS THAT BETTER OR DIFFERENT THAN THE 2016 TOLERANCE YOU’RE REFERRING TO???

No, I don’t want violence or murder or anything else. At some point though we may want Nazis even less.

I mean that’s easy enough: https://gunviolencearchive.org/. #1 cause of gun death accounting for more than half of all guns deaths in the US year after year: Suicide.

I wish the left were as armed as the right, because armed citizens are harder to oppress.

It’s what finally made me stop reading the EU. Up until that point I owned and had read nearly every SWEU book.

The Vong stopped that. I’d stop consuming any Star Wars content first.

They were so fucking lame, just an obnoxious combination of “scary dogmatic aliens” and “biology based technology” tropes. Pathetic.

They shot up a Sikh temple after 9/11. These aren’t smart people.

If we had empathy we’d pass universal healthcare - most gun deaths are suicides, more than any other form. gunviolencearchive.org. Banning guns won’t help, those people will still want to be dead. Fewer of them may succeed, but the human misery will still be there.

And by we I mean my fellow Democrats. Republicans don’t even pretend to give a shit.

Most gun deaths in the US annually are suicides.

Most. As in more than 50%.

https://gunviolencearchive.org/

Ban guns, take guns away, all those people still want to die.

How about we fix that?

Taking guns away from the rest of us just means we’re helpless in the face of fascism and tyranny. You know, like Hong Kong? And that’s bad.

Let’s help people want to be alive.

Yeah because if you do, when the fascists take over you’ll se SOL.

I don’t advocate for reddit (I don’t like it) but /r/DGU collects news articles of Defensive Gun Use, so if you feel the need to read about people fending off robbers, murderers, and rapists, you can do so there.

It’s ironic to mention retributive violence while advocating against people’s rights to be armed to defend themselves.

Nobody is advocating for murder or murderers. While I dislike reddit, /r/DGU is typically very illustrative as to why it’s so important.

I hope - sincerely - to never need to defend myself or my family.

That doesn’t mean you get to disarm me so that some murderers can ignore the law and kill people anyway.

Once again, we need actual gun regulation in this country.

Hard disagree. We have plenty of gun regulation. Too much, in fact.

And Trump just said he wants to disarm all Trans folks, so they’re all easier to victimize because of one person. You want more of that? You know who else was in favor of gun control? That’s right.

What we need more than “actual gun regulation” is “actual universal healthcare including mental healthcare”.

You know already, I’m sure, that most gun deaths in the USA each year are from suicide. (gunviolencearchive.org)

Imagine if you gave a shit about that statistic. Now keep imagining that either or both political parties did too. (Stop laughing!) Because however hard you ban guns, all those people still want to die. Imagine fixing that, instead of worrying about whether or not honest people deserve to be able to defend themselves. (Because as it turns out, murderers don’t care about the law, google Abe Japan for an example of that.)

Gun bans won’t stop attacks like today. They’ll stop normal people from defending themselves, and that’s it.