Gun rights extremists will talk endlessly about "tyranny" but they're about to meet perhaps the most authoritarian government in US history and I promise you they will do nothing about it - ThreadSky

drewmckevitt.bsky.social • 96 days ago

Gun rights extremists will talk endlessly about "tyranny" but they're about to meet perhaps the most authoritarian government in US history and I promise you they will do nothing about it

Reposted from Nick Wilson

Not sure what these gun lobby extremists have against the American Federation of Teachers.

Maybe they should have finished their homework in school.

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otiscampbell.bsky.social•96 days ago

There were many people on this platform trying hard to the point of exhaustion to persuade every single swing voter they possibly could (and I admire that).

But meanwhile I'm thinking, there were millions of voters who broke Trump simply because they knew then Dettelbach would get the boot

otiscampbell.bsky.social•96 days ago

on January 21st. If you don't know who Steve Dettelbach is, or why his appointment by Biden was a travesty, then you don't get to sneer at gun rights activists complaining about the ATF.

drewmckevitt.bsky.social•96 days ago

lol "millions" of Steve Dettelbach voters, right

otiscampbell.bsky.social•96 days ago

There are around 83 million US citizens who own firearms, and many of them are acutely aware of the arbitrary, capricious, politically servile behavior of the ATF. Despotic governments _always_ strive to disarm citizens, and you're right, that is far more likely under Trump than

otiscampbell.bsky.social•96 days ago

any President in US history. When he does...who is the one who isn't going to do shit about it?

drewmckevitt.bsky.social•96 days ago

You, specifically

beagleantics.bsky.social•96 days ago

If Tim McVeigh were around, he’d get a cabinet position.

packrfan4.bsky.social•96 days ago

It will the kind of authoritarianism that they align with tho, so it will be OK to them.

johnpbruni.bsky.social•96 days ago

Person submitting cartoon: "Hey, is it okay that I drew the woman with a fish head and a man with a potato head?

Extremist gun lobby: "We don't give a shit"

j9soto.bsky.social•96 days ago

They will cheer until it no longer aligns with them. But yea they won't fight back mostly because they don't know what tyranny is.

zwolf.bsky.social•96 days ago

Oh, they might do something about it -- they might help enforce it. They are THAT stupid.

But will they oppose it? No. They won't recognize it as a thing that needs opposing... even when it's standing on their necks. They are trained.

jenlucky.bsky.social•96 days ago

I mean, they might get a bumper sticker.

cgthegeek.bsky.social•96 days ago

Because they agree with it.

toliver.bsky.social•96 days ago

I saw a car with a "Carry guns like in 1776" and I thought "Show me your flintlock!" I was just at a ceremony where 4 men were firing their flintlocks and fumbling with loading them and I'm all for people having one if they want. It is a wonder we won that war.